Atlas of Thyroid Lesions


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  • Kundrecensioner
  • Of course, nobody really understood the significance of this at the time.

    Understanding Thyroid Nodules Video – Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    I could keep the thing in the trap. I ran my tongue over his skin, a quick, tentative movement.

    Kundrecensioner

    This evidence supports the opinion that incidental nodules do not require US assessment unless the patient also has risk factors and clinical findings that are suspicious for malignancy [ 14 , 19 , 24 ]. There are a number of features on US that are suggestive of a malignant thyroid nodule. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. The patient should be lying supine and the neck in a slightly hyper-extended position to fully expose the anterior neck. Additional diagnostic features such as halo, colloid, calcification and vascular patterns are also discussed in detail. However, the nodule is hypo-echoic with an echo signal close to the adjacent strap muscle.