The role of preoperative neck ultrasounds to assess lymph nodes in patients with suspicious or indeterminate thyroid nodules

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 601-605

  Roy, Rashmi ^a   Kouniavsky, Guennadi ^a   Venkat, Raghunandan ^a   Felger, Erin A ^b   Shiue, Zita ^c   Schneider, Eric ^a   Zeiger, Martha A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

metastases; papillary thyroid cancer; preoperative neck ultrasound; suspicious or indeterminate thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR VOLUME;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84859721552     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.22115     Document Type: Review

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