Diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in the preoperative evaluation of lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma: a single-center retrospective study

Abstract Background Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has been recently used for the assessment of cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) to guide surgical operation in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, the specificity and sensitivity of CEUS reported from previous studies ar...

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Published in:	BMC Surgery
Main Authors:	Zhixin Yang, Xiaofeng Wang, Tao Tao, Jiali Zou, Zhu Qiu, Long Wang, Huimin Du, Ni Chen, Xuedong Yin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2023-10-01
Subjects:	Papillary thyroid carcinoma Contrast-enhanced ultrasound Lymph node metastasis
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-023-02199-w