TY - BOOK AU - Mostafa Mohammed Mostafa AU - Omar Moawyah Osman , AU - Tamer Wahid Kassem , TI - Ultrasound elastography in assessment of thyroid nodules / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mostafa Mohammed Mostafa , KW - Elastography KW - Thyroid gland KW - Ultrasound N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -