[Angiodynography of circumscribed thyroid changes].
Conventional methods of thyroid diagnosis, such as scintigraphy, differentiate between hot and cold areas, but within cold areas no distinction between malignant and benign changes is possible. Angiodynography provides a new method which gives the usual sonographic information and also indicated variations in blood-flow in the organ. Various diagnostic methods--thyroid scintigraphy, conventional sonography, fine-needle biopsy and angiodynography--have been compared in patients with focal thyroid disease. It has been shown that it is possible to differentiate between malignant and benign lesions on the basis of their vascularisation.
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Abteilung für Radiologische Diagnostik und Strahlentherapie, Universität Tübingen.
Bautz
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Müller-Schauenburg
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Feine
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003116:Color; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods
Angiodynographie bei umschriebenen Schilddrüsen-veränderungen.