Predictive value of sonographic features in preoperative evaluation of malignant thyroid nodules in a multinodular goiter

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1948-1954

  Salmaslioǧlu, Artür ^a   Erbil, Yeşim ^a   Dural, Cem ^a   Işsever, Halim ^a   Kapran, Yersu ^a   Özarmaǧan, Selçuk ^a   Tezelman, Serdar ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 49749150044     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9600-2     Document Type: Article

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