Research Article
Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging: A New Tool for the Diagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma
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Pathology types and virtual tissue imaging scores of the thyroid nodules.
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Caption: In comparison with malignant nodules, , . The distribution of VTI score (score 1 to score 6) of benign nodules was significant different from that of the malignant ones. Most of benign nodules were classified to be score 1 to score 3 on VTI score and most of malignant nodules were classified to be score 4 to score 6 (, ). But the distribution of VTI score of nodular goiters was not significantly different from that of Hashimoto nodules (, ). |