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Ultrasound elastography in assessment of thyroid nodules /

Mostafa Mohammed Mostafa

Ultrasound elastography in assessment of thyroid nodules / التصوير المرن بالموجات فوق الصوتية فى تقييم اورام الغدة الدرقية Mostafa Mohammed Mostafa ; Supervised Omar Moawyah Osman , Tamer Wahid Kassem - Cairo : Mostafa Mohammed Mostafa , 2012 - 73P. : facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis

Thyroid nodules are common in general population their prevalence is being dramatically increased in iodine - deficient areas . The great majority of nodules are benign less than 5% of them are malignant . Ultrasound elastography ia s newly developed technology that has been used in assessment of thyroid nodules . It can measure the degree of tissue stiffness as pathological tissues are uaually harder than normal tissues



Elastography Thyroid gland Ultrasound