Differentiation of benign from malignant thyroid lesions: Calculation of the strain ratio on thyroid sonoelastography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 663-669

  Xing, Ping ^a   Wu, Linfeng ^a   Zhang, Chunmei ^a   Li, Shu ^a   Liu, Chunbo ^a   Wu, Changjun ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elastography; Sonography; Strain ratio; Thyroid lesions

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; ELASTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE SONOELASTOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZED METHODS; STRAIN RATIOS; THYROID LESIONS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID TUMOR; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955541633     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.5.663     Document Type: Article

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