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

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

doi:10.11152/mu-999

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

Med Ultrason. 2017 Apr 22;19(2):195-210. doi: 10.11152/mu-999.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
² Department of Radiology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, USA and Southwoods Imaging, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
³ Department of Internal Medicine 1, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁴ Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Policlinico Umberto I, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Ultrasound Division, Department of Radiology, Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁶ Division of Radiology, Imperial and Kings Colleges, London, UK.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
⁸ Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
⁹ Department of Surgery, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
¹⁰ Diagnostic Radiology Institute, Paula Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
¹¹ Department of Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹² Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University School of Medicine, China.
¹³ Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas Hospital, Bad Mergentheim, Germany Sino-German Research Center of Ultrasound in Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. Christoph.dietrich@ckbm.de.

PMID: 28440355
DOI: 10.11152/mu-999

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

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