Background: Widespread use of ultrasound to assess thyroid disease has led to an increased ... by ultrasound in one case. Additionally, lymph node metastases were detected in 16 carcinomas ...

Neck ultrasonography is widely used for follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid ... results of ultrasound scans with the pathological findings from dissected lymph nodes of 19 patients ...

However, a previous ultrasound may ... presence of lymph nodes, distant metastases) and age is the general tumor risk assessment algorithm. A number of thyroid-specific staging protocols have ...

Thyroid cancer can sometimes come back in the lymph nodes, small pieces of thyroid ... and thyroid screening TSH/T4 labs and a thyroid ultrasound if concerns for a thyroid mass are present or ...