The Accuracy of 18[F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography, ultrasonography, and enhanced computed tomography alone in the preoperative diagnosis of cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2564-2569

  Morita, Shinya ^a   Mizoguchi, Kenji ^a   Suzuki, Masanobu ^a   Iizuka, Keiji ^a  

^a Kushiro City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952672084     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0733-8     Document Type: Article

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