Preoperative staging of papillary thyroid carcinoma: Comparison of ultrasound imaging and CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 871-878

  Choi, Ji Soo ^a   Kim, Jinna ^a   Kwak, Jin Young ^a   Kim, Min Jung ^a   Chang, Hang Seok ^a   Kim, Eun Kyung ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CT; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Preoperative; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69949102111     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2386     Document Type: Article

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