Can vascularity at power Doppler US help predict thyroid malignancy?

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 260-269

  Moon, Hee Jung ^a   Kwak, Jin Young ^a   Kim, Min Jung ^a   Son, Eun Ju ^a   Kim, Eun Kyung ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77950420705     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09091284     Document Type: Article

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