Real-time ultrasound elastography-a noninvasive diagnostic procedure for evaluating dominant thyroid nodules

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 865-871

  Vorländer, Christian ^a   Wolff, Jan ^a   Saalabian, Said ^a   Lienenlüke, Robert H ^a   Wahl, Robert A ^a  

^a Departement of Endocrine Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastography; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid nodules; Thyroid surgery; Thyroid ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 78149468231     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-010-0685-3     Document Type: Article

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