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Measuring Thyroid Gland Volume: Should We Change the Correction Factor?

Wael Shabana1, Els Peeters1 and Michel De Maeseneer1,2

1 Department of Radiology, AZ-Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
2 Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 E Medical Center Dr., TC-2910G, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0326.



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  		Fig. 1 —Transverse CT image in 32-year-old man (right lobe of thyroid). Measurements obtained in transverse plane using ellipsoid method are shown.

 


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  		Fig. 2 —Transverse CT image in 32-year-old man (right lobe of thyroid). Tracings obtained with automated CT volumetry software.

 


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  		Fig. 3 —Different correction factors used to estimate thyroid volume and resulting p values are shown.

 

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