Thyroid

Hashimoto

• White knight nodules

  • Benign nodule

  • Homogenously hyperechoic without calcifications or cystic areas

  • No internal doppler flow

• Increased risk of cancer

  • NHL

When looking at thyroid US

• Microcalcifications has high specificity and low sensitivity for papillary thyroid cancer

Medullary thyroid carcinoma

• Coarse likely macro-calcifications

  • Look for shadowing

• MEN 2A