Thyroid ultrasonography B-mode and color-Doppler.
Recently, ultrasonography of the thyroid gland has proved to be a useful clinical diagnostic method. The newly developed high-resolution ultrasonography with color-Doppler flow mapping function can reveal fine details of the thyroid gland and the hemodynamic features of thyroid neoplasmas. Ultrasonography can deliver a diagnostic accuracy of over 90% in thyroid carcinoma, especially papillary carcinoma. However, in the case of follicular carcinoma, neither conventional B-mode ultrasound imaging nor aspiration biopsy cytology can deliver satisfactory results. Color-Doppler imaging examination of 212 follicular tumors has been carried out, resulting in the characteristic finding that a high-velocity pulsative blood flow penetrates the tumor in the case of follicular carcinoma, which led to new diagnostic criteria with color-Doppler examination. The differential diagnostic grading score using color-Doppler examination and FFT analysis can show a dramatic diagnostic accuracy of 81.0%, a sensitivity of 88.9% and a specificity of 74.2%. Ultrasound with the color-Doppler function can play a more important role in the differential diagnosis of thyroid tumors.
Fukunari
Nobuhiro
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Surgical branch of ITO Hospital, 4-3-6, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8308, Japan. fukunari@fc5.so-net.ne.jp
D006801:Humans; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*