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Diffuse Sclerosing Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Jung Hyun Kyung,
Hong Soon Won,
Kim Eun-Kyung,
Yoon Jung Hyun,
Kwak Jin Young
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.2013.32.2.347
Subject(s) - medicine , papillary carcinoma , thyroid , pathology , thyroid carcinoma , carcinoma , radiology
The purpose of this pictorial essay is to show the limitations of sonography and complementary usefulness of specimen radiography in detecting microcalcifications of the diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma, which mostly manifests as diffusely scattered microcalcifications in the thyroid gland.