TY - BOOK AU - Waleed Mahmoud Hassan AU - Reda Saad Abdellatif , AU - Tamer Wahid Kassem , TI - Thyroid nodules : : Ultrasound elastography versus FNAC / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Waleed Mahmoud Hassan , KW - FNA KW - FNAC KW - US N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - Elastography is still an immature technology with many variants and pitfalls. To use it effectively, one must understand what is being measured and what technical factors can affect image quality and diagnostic accuracy. Thyroid nodules are common clinical findings and have a reported prevalence of 4% to 7% of the adult population. The vast majority of these nodules are non neoplastic lesions or benign neoplasms UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -