MIBI scintigraphy in hypofunctioning thyroid nodules: Can it predict the dignity of the lesion?

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 144-152

  Theissen, Peter ^a   Schmidt, M ^a   Ivanova, T ^a   Dietlein, M ^a   Schicha, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Goiter; Hypofunctioning thyroid nodule; Methylisobutyisonitrile; Scintigraphy; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IODINE; ISONITRILE DERIVATIVE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METHYLISOBUTYLISONITRILE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NODULAR GOITER; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROID SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 70349212235     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3413/nukmed-0240     Document Type: Article

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