ULTRASOUND IMAGING FEATURES OF CERVICAL LYMPH NODES METASTASIS IN PATIENTS WITH PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER AFTER SURGERY AND TREATMENT WITH 131I
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Background: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the characters of B Mode and color Doppler ultrasound (CDUS) in diagnosis cervical lymph nodes metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid after surgery and treatment with 131I. Materials and Methods: Retrospective combined with prospective research, cross-sectional description of 61 patients with 123 lymph nodes, surgical and histopathological in 108 Military Central Hospital during the period from October 2020 to April 2021. Results: We conducted ultrasound in 123 lymph nodes. To compare with the pathology results of the disease, there are 73 metastatic lymph nodes, 50 nonmetastatic lymph nodes. Round shape, loss of an echogenic fatty hilum, echo, calcification, and abnormal vascularity were significantly more common in metastatic than nonmetastatic lymph nodes, whereas the boundary and size did not significantly differ. Conclusions: Our study found that the ultrasuond features of round shape, echo, calcification, loss of echogenic fatty hilum, and abnormal vascularity were useful sonographic criteria for differentiating between cervical lymph nodes with and without metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid after surgery and treatment with 131I.
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B-mode ultrasound, Doppler color ultrasonography, histopathology, metastatic lymph node
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