Ultrasound-guided biopsy in lymph nodes of postoperative thyroid papillary carcinoma:a review of 195 patients
LIU Jie
HU Ruying
ZHANG Qiongmin
PENG Yunsong
CAI Hu
Abstract：Objective To evaluate the clinical significance of ultrasound-guided needle biopsy in diagnosis of lymph nodes re-currence and metastasis in postoperative thyroid papillary carcinoma.Methods We analyzed the ultrasonic features of 195 pa-tients who received ultrasound-guided needle biopsy after thyroidectomy, and the influence of ultrasonic feature on pathological di-agnosis was also studied.Results 277 cervical lymph nodes from 195 patients after thyroidectomy were studied.In 86 cases (123 iymph nodes), metastasis was found (44.4%), and a majority of metastatic iymph nodes was found located in III~IV re-gion, and appeared to have a long-to short-axis diameter ratio of less than 2.They showed maidistribution echo, always found cal-cification inside, and the blood flow was classified as degree 2~3.According to theultrasonic characteristics above, metastatic iymph nodes significantly differed from non-metastatic ones ( P <0.01).Conclusion UItrasonography combined with FNAC is useful in diagnosis of cervical lymph node recurrence and metastasis in postoperative thyroid carcinoma.
Keywords：Thyroid carcinomaLymphatic metastasisUItrasonographyFine-needle biopsy
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 1799-1802 )