Role of intrathyroidal calcifications detected on ultrasound as a marker of malignancy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1753-1757

  Seiberling, Kristin A ^a   Dutra, Jose C ^a   Grant, Tom ^a   Bajramovic, Sanija ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calcifications; macrocalcifications; microcalcifications; Thyroid disease; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE CALCIFICATION; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4944240709     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200410000-00014     Document Type: Article

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