Real-time elastography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound for the assessment of thyroid nodules

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 602-609

  Friedrich Rust, M ^a   Sperber, A ^a   Holzer, K ^a   Diener, J ^a   Grunwald F ^a   Badenhoop, K ^a   Weber, S ^a   Kriener, S ^a   Herrmann, E ^b   Bechstein, W O ^a   Zeuzem, S ^a   Bojunga, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CEUS; dignity; radionuclide scanning; sonography; thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 77958163342     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1237701     Document Type: Article

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