RADIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF NODULAR NEOPLASMS OF THE THYROID GLANDS
Abstract
The paper presents the results of complex diagnostics of volume diseases of the thyroid gland. Complex diagnostics of nodular thyroid neoplasms using ultrasound diagnostics and magnetic resonance imaging for preoperative differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid tumors can increase the accuracy and reliability of the results. Magnetic resonance imaging is the most sensitive, specific and accurate method of differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid tumors. The ultrasound method is inferior to the MRI method in specificity and accuracy. CT tomography is an informative method of diagnosis of nodular neoplasms of the thyroid gland. The study confirmed the following criteria of malignancy: no capsule, blurred contours of the site, the heterogeneity of a education, the presence of invasion into adjacent tissues and organs, swollen lymph nodes. When identifying two or more criteria, it is necessary to assume a malignant character of a neoplasm of the thyroid gland.