EVALUATION OF THYROID SWELLING WITH THE USE OF ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R938- Abnormal findings on diagnostic imaging of other specified body structures
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/01/039637
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Radiodiagnosis
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All patients in the age group of 11 to 80 who are suspected to have nodular thyroid disease or altered thyroid function test.
All patients with thyroid nodules measuring more than 1cm in size .
All patients with diagnosed thyroid disease on follow up and willing to undergo surgery .
Exclusion Criteria
Completely cystic lesions are unlikely to be malignant and hence excluded from study.
All post treated cases of malignant thyroid disease presenting with recurrence.
Patients with Hyperthyroidism/Recurrent goitre.
Cases with nondiagnostic /indeterminate results.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ltrasound elastography is as good as tissue biopsy/fnac in detecting benign and malignant thyroid lesions.Timepoint: 1 year 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ltrasound elastography can detect the histologic subtype of a thyroid lesion based on its elastographic pattern.Timepoint: 18months