Role of Ultrasound Elastography and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Diagnosis and Management of Malignant Thyroid Nodules-An Update

Overview

Journal Diagnostics (Basel)

Specialty Radiology

Date 2025 Mar 13

PMID 40075847

Authors

Carolina Solomon

Diana-Raluca Petea-Balea

Sorin Marian Dudea

Ioana Bene

Cristina Alina Silaghi

Manuela Lavinia Lenghel

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to highlight the combined role of ultrasound elastography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in terms of diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of the post-treatment response. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and ultrasound elastography are natural extensions of conventional USs that have created new opportunities, facilitating the implementation of multiparametric ultrasounds in the characterization of thyroid nodules, in risk stratification, and in the selection of nodules that request Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA), management, and follow-up of the nodules with indeterminate cytology, evaluation of pre-operative prognostic features, and treatment efficiency.

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