What to Do With Incidental Thyroid Nodules on Imaging? An Approach for the Radiologist

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-157

  Hoang, Jenny K ^a   Raduazo, Phillip ^a   Yousem, David M ^b   Eastwood, James D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; RADIOISOTOPE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATTENUATION DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84858127334     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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