Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: Stratification of malignancy risk using follicular proliferation grading, clinical and ultrasonographic features

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1107-1115

  Rorive, Sandrine ^a   D'Haene, Nicky ^a   Fossion, Caroline ^a   Delpierre, Isabelle ^b   Abarguia, Nizar ^b   Avni, Freddy ^b   Decaestecker, Christine ^a   Salmon, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURGERY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 77952724354     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-09-1103     Document Type: Article

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