The ultrasound of thyroid masses.
Ultrasonography of the thyroid gland permits differentiation between cystic, solid, and mixed lesions, allowing conservative management of cystic lesions, which constitute 20% of hypofunctioning nodules. The combination of ultrasonography and fine needle aspiration cytology appears to be a great advance in the preoperative diagnosis of nontoxic goiter and permits individualized treatment in as precise a manner as is possible at present.
D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis; D006042:Goiter / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D013955:Thyroglossal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013966:Thyroiditis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014463:Ultrasonography