Anaplastic thyroid cancer CT

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2]

Overview

CT scan may be helpful in the diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer.

CT Scan

CT scan may be helpful in the diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer for detecting metastasis.^[1]^[2]

CT Examples of Anaplastic thyroid cancer

References

↑ Thyroid Cancer Canadian Cancer Society (2015). http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/thyroid/diagnosis/?region=sk- Accessed on November, 19 2015
↑ Smallridge RC, Ain KB, Asa SL, Bible KC, Brierley JD, Burman KD, Kebebew E, Lee NY, Nikiforov YE, Rosenthal MS, Shah MH, Shaha AR, Tuttle RM (November 2012). “American Thyroid Association guidelines for management of patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer”. Thyroid. 22 (11): 1104–39. doi:10.1089/thy.2012.0302. PMID 23130564.
↑ Image courtesy of Ichiro Abe Hindawi (original file ‘’here’’.Creative Commons BY-SA-NC

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