Comparison of diagnostic value of conventional ultrasonography and shear wave elastography in the prediction of thyroid lesions malignancy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Szczepanek Parulska, Ewelina ^a   Woliński, Kosma ^a   Stangierski, Adam ^a   Gurgul, Edyta ^a   Biczysko, Maciej ^a   Majewski, Przemysław ^a   Rewaj Łosyk, Magdalena ^a   Ruchała, Marek ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC THYROID CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD CIRCULATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896696653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081532     Document Type: Article

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