Cystic change in thyroid nodules: A confounding factor for real-time qualitative thyroid ultrasound elastography

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 799-807

  Bhatia, K S S ^a   Rasalkar, D P ^a   Lee, Y P ^a   Wong, K T ^a   King, A D ^a   Yuen, H Y ^a   Ahuja, A T ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REAL TIME QUALITATIVE ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION;

ADENOMA; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COHORT STUDIES; CYSTS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 79960558034     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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