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Synchronous Triplanar Reconstruction Integrated with Color Doppler Mapping for Precise and Rapid Localization of Thyroid Lesions
Published on: February 9, 2024
Thyroid calcifications: sonographic patterns and incidence of cancer
Suzuka Taki1, Shintaro Terahata, Ryohei Yamashita
1Department of Radiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Daigaku 1-1, Uchinada, Kahoku 920-0293, Japan. staki@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
Abstract:
We investigated the incidence of cancer in surgically resected 151 thyroid nodules in 101 patients according to their calcification patterns on preoperative ultrasonography (US). Calcification was detected in 57 (38%) nodules, 31 (54%) of which was histologically diagnosed as cancer. According to the calcification types, 9 of 11 nodules with microcalcifications, 15 of 29 nodules with intranodular coarse calcification, 6 of 14 nodules with peripheral calcification and 1 of 3 calcified spots without surrounding tumor were diagnosed as cancer.
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