Incidental thyroid nodule: patterns of diagnosis and rate of malignancy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-324

  Jin, Judy ^a   Wilhelm, Scott M ^a   McHenry, Christopher R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging modality; Incidental thyroid nodule; Malignancy; Pre existing malignancy; Thyroid incidentaloma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549084343     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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