Ultrasound Features of Suture Granulomas in the Thyroid Bed After Thyroidectomy for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with an Emphasis on Their Differentiation from Locally Recurrent Thyroid Carcinomas

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1452-1457

  Kim, Jeoung Hyun ^a   Lee, Jeong Hyun ^a   Shong, Young Kee ^a   Hong, Suck Joon ^a   Ko, Myung Su ^a   Lee, Deok Hee ^a   Choi, Choong Gon ^a   Kim, Sang Joon ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Foreign bodies; Granuloma; Thyroid; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ECHOGENIC; FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATIONS; FOREIGN BODIES; GRANULOMA; RECURRENT TUMORS; SUTURE MATERIALS; THYROID; THYROID CARCINOMA; ULTRASOUND;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CYTOLOGY; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949097505     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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