The diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy and the sonographic differences between benign and malignant thyroid nodules 3cm or larger

Thyroid

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 993-1000

  Yoon, Jung Hyun ^a,b   Kwak, Jin Young ^a   Moon, Hee Jung ^a   Kim, Min Jung ^a   Kim, Eun Kyung ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b CHA University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HURTHLE CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOCYTOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; TUMOR CALCINOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052448447     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2010.0458     Document Type: Article

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