Preliminary study on the diagnostic value of acoustic radiation force impulse technology for differentiating between benign and malignant thyroid nodules

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 763-771

  Gu, Jiying ^a   Du, Lianfang ^a   Bai, Min ^a   Chen, Huili ^a   Jia, Xiao ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Zhang, Xuemei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Sonography; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; CLINICAL APPLICATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS; THYROID NODULE;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84864193291     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2012.31.5.763     Document Type: Article

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