Prospective evaluation of solitary thyroid nodule on 18F-FDG PET/CT and high-resolution ultrasonography

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 345-355

  D'Souza, Maria Mathew ^a   Marwaha, Raman Kumar ^a   Sharma, Rajnish ^a   Jaimini, Abhinav ^a   Thomas, Shaji ^b   Singh, Dinesh ^a   Jain, Manjula ^b   Bhalla, Param Jit Singh ^a   Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   Tiwari, Anjani ^a   Mishra, Anil ^a   Mondal, Anupam ^a   Tripathi, Rajendra Prashad ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

18F FDG positron emission tomography computed tomography; Malignant; Thyroid nodule; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; THYROID NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954426173     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-010-0357-y     Document Type: Article

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