Interobserver agreement in assessing the sonographic and elastographic features of malignant thyroid nodules

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sung, Hee Park ^a,b   Soo, Jin Kim ^a   Kim, Eun Kyung ^a   Min, Jung Kim ^a   Eun, Ju Son ^a   Kwak, Jin Young ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Gachon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conventional ultrasound; Elastography; Interobserver agreement; Malignant thyroid nodule; Thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL B MODE ULTRASOUND; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALIGNANT THYROID NODULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REALTIME FREEHAND ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 70449510202     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2541     Document Type: Article

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