Role of thyroid ultrasound in the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 913-928

  Rago, Teresa ^a   Vitti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

thyroid; thyroid nodules; thyroid ultrasound; US elastography

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 56749165355     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.09.016     Document Type: Review

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