Echogenic foci with comet-tail artifact in resected thyroid nodules: Not an absolute predictor of benign disease

Hongxun Wu; Bingjie Zhang; Jie Li; Qianyun Liu; Tingting Zhao

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191505

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Echogenic foci with comet-tail artifact in resected thyroid nodules: Not an absolute predictor of benign disease

Hongxun Wu ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: whxmd@outlook.com

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Jiangyuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine), Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2837-2458

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Bingjie Zhang,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Jiangyuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine), Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Jie Li,

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Jiangyuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine), Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Qianyun Liu,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Jiangyuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine), Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Tingting Zhao

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Jiangyuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine), Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Echogenic foci with comet-tail artifact in resected thyroid nodules: Not an absolute predictor of benign disease

Hongxun Wu,
Bingjie Zhang,
Jie Li,
Qianyun Liu,
Tingting Zhao

Published: January 19, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191505

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