Vascular pattern and spectral parameters of power Doppler ultrasound as predictors of malignancy risk in thyroid nodules

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2182-2186

  Bakhshaee, Mehdi ^a   Davoudi, Yasamin ^a   Mehrabi, Mostafa ^a   Layegh, Parvin ^a   Mirsadaee, Saadat ^a   Rad, Masoud Pezeshki ^a   Leyegh, Parvaneh ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

PI; Power doppler US; RI; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NODULAR GOITER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 58149361883     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3181864ae7     Document Type: Article

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