Diagnostic Accuracy of High-Resolution Neck Ultrasonography in the Follow-Up of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Prospective Study

Alzahrani, Ali S.; Alsuhaibani, Hamad; Salam, Suzan Abdel; Sifri, Saud N. Al; Mohamed, Gamal; Sobhi, Saif Al; Sulaiman, Othman M.; Mohamed, Ahmed Sh.

doi:10.4158/ep.11.3.165

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“…3,13,15,16,23,24 In several studies, cystic portions within a cervical lymph node were considered highly suggestive of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma. 15,16,[26][27][28][29][30] We detected cystic portions in 21.3% of metastatic nodes, and all of them were metastases of papillary carcinoma. There was no cystic degeneration among benign lymph nodes in our study; a cysticlike pattern was seen only in seromas.…”

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confidence: 76%

Ultrasonographic Differentiation of Benign From Malignant Neck Lymphadenopathy in Thyroid Cancer

Kuna

Bračić

Tešić

et al. 2006

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

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confidence: 76%

Ultrasonographic Differentiation of Benign From Malignant Neck Lymphadenopathy in Thyroid Cancer

Kuna

Bračić

Tešić

et al. 2006

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

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“…Abnormal LNs: sensitivity and specificity of abnormal US and Doppler-US patterns are summarized in table 2 [25,26,27,29,30]. …”

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2013 European Thyroid Association Guidelines for Cervical Ultrasound Scan and Ultrasound-Guided Techniques in the Postoperative Management of Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Leenhardt¹,

Erdoğan²,

Hegedűs³

et al. 2013

Eur Thyroid J

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Cervical ultrasound scanning (US) is considered a key examination, by all major thyroid and endocrine specialist societies for the postoperative follow-up of thyroid cancer patients to assess the risk of recurrence. Neck US imaging is readily available, non-invasive, relatively easy to perform, cost-effective, and can guide diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with low complication rates. Its main shortcoming is its operator-dependency. Because of the pivotal role of US in the care of thyroid cancer patients, the European Thyroid Association convened a panel of international experts to review technical aspects, indications, results, and limitations of cervical US in the initial staging and follow-up of thyroid cancer patients. The main aim is to establish guidelines for both a cervical US scanning protocol and US-guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in patients with thyroid cancer. This report presents (1) standardization of the US scanning procedure, techniques of US-guided fine-needle aspiration, and reporting of findings; (2) definition of criteria for classification of malignancy risk based on cervical US imaging characteristics of neck masses and lymph nodes; (3) indications for US-guided fine-needle aspiration and for biological in situ assessments; (4) proposal of an algorithm for the follow-up of thyroid cancer patients based on risk stratification following histopathological and cervical US findings, and (5) discussion of the potential use of US-guided localization and ablation techniques for locoregional thyroid metastases.

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“…Several studies in the literature have discussed the predictors of metastatic disease in differentiated thyroid cancer, though there were no other studies applying a sonographic predictive model for the population of patients with PTC. Other studies have noted the size, central location, echo pattern, and Doppler flow or abnormal enhancement on CT as predictors of metastatic disease: Alzahrani et al 16 found the size (7.5 mm) and central location of cervical LNs as the most important predictors of the presence of metastatic disease. In the study by Aribaş et al, 17 central location and hypoechogenicity with loss of hilum in the lateral neck were predictors of malignancy.…”

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Clinical Validation of a Predictive Model for the Presence of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Patel¹,

Lind²,

McKinney³

et al. 2018

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

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Diagnostic Accuracy of High-Resolution Neck Ultrasonography in the Follow-Up of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Prospective Study

Cited by 16 publications

References 35 publications

Ultrasonographic Differentiation of Benign From Malignant Neck Lymphadenopathy in Thyroid Cancer

Ultrasonographic Differentiation of Benign From Malignant Neck Lymphadenopathy in Thyroid Cancer

2013 European Thyroid Association Guidelines for Cervical Ultrasound Scan and Ultrasound-Guided Techniques in the Postoperative Management of Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Clinical Validation of a Predictive Model for the Presence of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer

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