Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 127-133 , March 2010

Positive predictive values of sonographic features of solid thyroid nodule

  • Yoo Jin Hong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Eun Ju Son

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, 146-92 Dogok-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-270, South Korea. Tel.: +82 2 2019 3510; fax: +82 2 3462 5472.
    • ,
  • Eun-Kyung Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Jin Young Kwak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Soon Won Hong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Pathology, The Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Hang-Seok Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, The Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Received 1 August 2008 ,Accepted 10 October 2008.

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☆ Presented in part as scientific paper SSE12-03 at the 2006 Radiological Society of North America meeting, Chicago, IL, November 2006.

PII: S0899-7071(09)00125-9

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.10.034

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 127-133 , March 2010

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