As many as one-third of doctors may be sending patients for a thyroid ultrasound for reasons not supported by guidelines, a new study finds. The use of ultrasound to detect thyroid cancer has led to a ...

An ultrasound is a painless procedure that uses sound waves to generate images of the inside of your body. Your doctor will often use an ultrasound to create images of a fetus during pregnancy. A ...

Thyroid ultrasonography is the gold-standard of thyroid and cervical node imaging and can be seen as an extension of the physical examination. Learning how to perform thyroid ultrasound scans in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 43-year-old woman was referred to the endocrine clinic for a thyroid nodule found on a CT scan of the chest ...

No single ultrasound feature can predict malignancy in thyroid nodules with acceptable diagnostic accuracy, a new systematic review and meta-analysis suggest. The findings have been published online ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A thyroid ultrasound showed four small nodules on my thyroid. My blood levels are within normal limits. My doctor said I did not need a follow-up. What do you think? -- J.M. ANSWER: ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 73-year-old man had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer at an academic medical center. An ...

With a pink, week-old surgical wound etched across a few inches of her neck, medical student Sally Rohan said somehow, she’d never had a scar until now. “This is my first,” Rohan, a second-year ...

Your thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland in the front of your neck. Its main job is to produce thyroid hormones, which help regulate your body's metabolism and control your heart rate, body ...

The iodide dye used in heart scans and other medical imaging might damage some people's thyroid glands, which could cause important health problems later on, researchers say. In a new study, they ...