Open AccessVascular flow on doppler sonography may not be a valid characteristic to distinguish colloid nodules from papillary thyroid carcinoma even when accounting for nodular size
Author(s) -
J. Matthew Debnam,
Thinh Vu,
Jia Sun,
Wei Wei,
Savitri Krishnamurthy,
Mark Zafereo,
Steven Weitzman,
Naveen Garg,
Salmaan Ahmed
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gland surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2227-8575
pISSN - 2227-684X
DOI - 10.21037/gs.2019.08.06
Subject(s) - medicine , nodule (geology) , logistic regression , radiology , thyroid nodules , pathology , thyroid , biology , paleontology
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that there is no significant difference in vascular flow patterns between cytopathologically-proven colloid nodules and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) even when adjusting for nodule size.