Shear Wave Elastography in Evaluation of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Elasticity Index as a Prognostic Implication

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 111-116

  Jung, Woo Sang ^a   Kim, Jeong Ah ^a   Son, Eun Ju ^a   Youk, Ji Hyun ^a   Park, Cheong Soo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84939874061     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3627-4     Document Type: Article

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