Incidental Thyroid nodules on CT: Evaluation of 2 risk-categorization methods for work-up of nodules

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1812-1817

  Nguyen, X V ^a   Roy Choudhury, K ^a   Eastwood, J D ^a   Lyman, G H ^a   Esclamado, R M ^a   Werner, J D ^a   Hoang, J K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK CATEGORIZATION METHOD; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85047687207     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3487     Document Type: Article

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