Efficacy of preoperative neck ultrasound in the detection of cervical lymph node metastasis from thyroid cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 487-491

  Hwang, Harry S ^a   Orloff, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

neck lymph nodes; thyroid cancer; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE SECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951862765     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21227     Document Type: Article

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