Thyroid calcifications: sonographic patterns and incidence of cancer |
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| Authors: | Taki Suzuka Terahata Shintaro Yamashita Ryohei Kinuya Keiko Nobata Koji Kakuda Kiyoshi Kodama Yuko Yamamoto Itaru |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Radiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Daigaku 1-1, Uchinada, Kahoku 920-0293, Japan. staki@kanazawa-med.ac.jp |
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| Abstract: | We investigated the incidence of cancer in surgically resected 151 thyroid nodules in 101 patients according to their calcification patterns on preoperative ultrasonography (US). Calcification was detected in 57 (38%) nodules, 31 (54%) of which was histologically diagnosed as cancer. According to the calcification types, 9 of 11 nodules with microcalcifications, 15 of 29 nodules with intranodular coarse calcification, 6 of 14 nodules with peripheral calcification and 1 of 3 calcified spots without surrounding tumor were diagnosed as cancer. |
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