Open AccessUltrasonography is valuable in evaluation of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma based on 5 mm tumor size
Author(s) -
Shudong Xia,
Yijie Dong,
Huili Kang,
Weiwei Zhan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.235347
Subject(s) - medicine , vascularity , calcification , radiology , stage (stratigraphy) , nodule (geology) , thyroid , lymph node metastasis , metastasis , echogenicity , ultrasound , lymph node , ultrasonography , pathology , cancer , biology , paleontology
Fine-needle aspiration was once done in suspected malignant thyroid nodules more than 5 mm in diameter. Five millimeter has been applied in many studies as the cut off tumor size in recent years. In this study, we would like to analyze the clinicopathological and ultrasonographic features of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) ≤5 mm and >5 mm with the aim of finding out the diagnostic value of ultrasonography.