1018: Value of Ultrasonography in Patients with Blunt Abdominal Trauma Versus Computed Tomography (original) (raw)

2009, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology

Results: One hundred forty-seven of 225 patients (65,3%) detected thyroid cancer, in 30 patients (13,3%) reccurence of thyroid cancer, in 24 patients simple adenoma, in 24 patients autoimmune thyroiditis. At cytological evaluation, in 147 patients with thyroid cancer diagnosis was papillary in 89 (61%), follicular in 44 (30%), and medullary in 5 (3,4%), anaplastic in 9 (6,1%). US criteria and colour flow Doppler examinations of thyroid cancers were: without capsular margin-131 (90,3%), nonhomogeneous echo structure-126 (86,9%), hypoechoic-121 (83,45%), irregular margin-119 (82,1%), non-smooth margin-104 (71,7%), abnormal shape-99 (68,3%), with cystic component-53 (36,55%), microcalcification-36 (24,8%), cervical LN metastasis-15 (10,2%), hypervascular-65%, hypovascular 27,5%, avascular 7,5%. Conclusions: Our study showing that US diagnosis is significant and cost-effective method of diagnosis of thyroid focal lesions. US guided FNAB of thyroid nodules has a high sensitivity (91%).