Differences in sonographic conspicuity according to papillary thyroid cancer subtype: Results of the Ukrainian-American cohort study after the chornobyl accident

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  O'Kane, Patrick ^a   Shelkovoy, Evgeniy ^b   McConnell, Robert J ^c   Shpak, Victor ^b   Parker, Laurence ^a   Bogdanova, Tatiana I ^b   Brenner, Alina ^d   Naida, Yuri ^b   Frangos, Andrea ^a   Zablotska, Lydia ^e   Robbins, Jacob ^f   Greenebaum, Ellen ^c   Zurnadzhy, Lydia Y ^b   Tronko, Mykolo ^b   Hatch, Maureen ^d  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b V P Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Ukraine Academy of Medical Sciences   (Ukraine)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernobyl accident; Chornobyl accident; Papillary thyroid cancer; Radiation exposure; Sonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; UKRAINE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149101386     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3812     Document Type: Article

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