Background: Widespread use of ultrasound to assess thyroid disease has ... were carcinomas (50 papillary, 15 follicular, and 2 medullary) and 41 were adenomas. Extracapsular growth was present ...

Objective: Conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for cystic thyroid nodules ... diagnosis was benign nodule in 42 cases, predominantly follicular lesion in 50 cases, and suspicious ...

Poorly differentiated and well-differentiated thyroid cancers can be present at the same time. Hurthle cell thyroid cancer (also called Hurtle cell carcinoma) is a rare sub-type of follicular thyroid ...

Many patients with papillary and follicular thyroid cancer do not show symptoms. Patients typically seek medical attention when they could see or feel a mass or lump (nodule) on the neck. Masses that ...

An estimated 42 million people in India suffer from thyroid problems, an autoimmune condition that has grown very common. The most frequent cause is thought to be iodine deficiency brought on by ...

January is Thyroid Awareness ... and a thyroid ultrasound if concerns for a thyroid mass are present or consider fine-needle aspiration if a mass is present to confirm if the nodule is cancerous ...