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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-2-16
pubmed:abstractText
The authors report their personal experience in 160 patients affected with thyroid conditions examined with US and fine needle aspiration (FNA). Benign nodular hyperplasia, cystic-colloid nodular hyperplasia, colloid cyst, hemorrhagic cyst, adenoma, thyroiditis, follicular and malignant lesions were studied. The latter consisted of 5 papillary carcinomas, 6 follicular carcinomas, 1 medullary carcinoma, 1 Hürthle cell carcinoma, 1 lymphoma and 1 metastatic lesion. The following US patterns were observed: 69.2% of the malignant lesions were hypoechoic, 15.4% were hyperechoic and 7.7% isoechoic. Most of the malignant lesions (84.6%) had inhomogeneous echo texture; 46.1% of them exhibited peripheral microcalcifications. US diagnoses were compared with cytologic and/or histologic findings to assess US accuracy. In the surgical patients US accuracy reached 78.6% in benign lesions and 61.5% in malignant lesions. Since US alone fails to yield enough pieces of information for an accurate diagnosis to be made, especially when malignant lesions are concerned, FNA should be used, while trying to define the actual role of color-Doppler US.
pubmed:language
ita
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0033-8362
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
88
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
598-605
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-10-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
[The reliability of echotomographic diagnosis in assessing thyroid lesions. A comparison with cytology and histology].
pubmed:affiliation
Istituto di Radiologia, Università di Torino.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, English Abstract