Is ultrasonography useful in predicting thyroid cancer in children with thyroid nodules and apparently benign cytopathologic features?

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 269-275

  Saavedra, Jannette ^a   Deladoëy, Johnny ^a   Saint Vil, Dickens ^b   Boivin, Yvan ^c   Alos, Nathalie ^a   Deal, Cheri ^a   Van Vliet, Guy ^a   Huot, Céline ^a,b  

^a Endocrinology Service and Research Center   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood pediatrics; Thyroid cancer; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 79953656278     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322877     Document Type: Article

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