Letter to the editor: Spectral power doppler ultrasound parameters: Are they really significant?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1452-

  Algin, Oktay ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POWER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR RESISTANCE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NODULAR GOITER; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 67949100307     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20297     Document Type: Letter

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