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Diagnostic accuracy of ct and ultrasonography for evaluating metastatic cervical lymph nodes in patients with thyroid cancer

Abstract
Background  The present study was designed to investigate the diagnostic ability of computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography (USG)
in the preoperative evaluation of the cervical nodal status of patients with thyroid cancer.

Methods  The study population consisted of 37 consecutive patients (female:male = 30:7, age range: 20–68 years) who subsequently underwent
total thyroidectomy and neck dissection for thyroid cancer. The results of the review of the preoperative CT and those of

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