Comparison of Color Flow Doppler Sonography (CFDS) and immunohistologic detection of microvessels for the assessment of the malignancy of thyroid nodules

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 670-676

  Sancak, S ^a   Hardt, A ^b   Gartner R ^c   Eszlinger, M ^b   Aslan, A ^a   Eren, F T ^a   Gulluoglu B M ^a   Sen, L S ^a   Sever, Z ^a   Akalin, N S ^a   Paschke, R ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD34; cold nodules; color flow Doppler sonography; hot nodules; papillary carcinoma; thyroid

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DENSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROVASCULATURE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TISSUE SECTION;

ANTIGENS, CD34; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVESSELS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ROC CURVE; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77955078247     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: 14394286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1255037     Document Type: Article

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