Ultrasound usage in the head and neck surgeon's office

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 116-121

  Welkoborsky, Hans J ^a  

^a NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Lymph node metastases; Office based ultrasonography; Thyroid and parathyroid masses

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER SCREENING; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGEON; THYROID DISEASE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFFICE VISITS; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 67849110379     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3283297042     Document Type: Review

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