Thyroid Ultrasound: State of the Art. Part 2 - Focal Thyroid Lesions.

Thyroid Ultrasound: State of the Art. Part 2 - Focal Thyroid Lesions.

Dighe Manjiri; Barr Richard; Bojunga Jorg; Cantisani Vito; Chammas Maria Cristina; Cosgrove David; Cui Xin-Wu; Dong Yi; Fenner Franziska; Radzina Maija; Vinayak Sudhir; Xu Jun-Mei; Dietrich Christoph F

Medical ultrasonography

2017

2017-04

Accurate differentiation of focal thyroid nodules (FTL) and thyroid abnormalities is pivotal for proper diagnostic and therapeutic work-up. In these two part articles, the role of ultrasound techniques in the characterization of FTL and evaluation of diffuse thyroid diseases is described to expand on the recently published World Federation in Ultrasound and Medicine (WFUMB) thyroid elastography guidelines and review how this guideline fits into a complete thyroid ultrasound exam.

*Practice Guidelines as Topic; Computer Assisted – Methods; Computer-Assisted/*methods; Diagnosis; Differential; Evidence-Based; Evidence-Based Medicine; Humans; Image Enhancement – Methods; Image Enhancement/methods; Image Interpretation; Medical Practice; Practice Guidelines; Reproducibility of Results; Scales; Sensitivity and Specificity; Thyroid Gland; Thyroid Gland – Pathology; Thyroid Gland/*diagnostic imaging/pathology; Thyroid Nodule; Thyroid Nodule – Pathology; Thyroid Nodule/*diagnostic imaging/pathology; Ultrasonography – Methods; Ultrasonography – Standards; Ultrasonography/*methods/*standards

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