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ea0084ps3-15-141 | Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment | ETA2022

What do different echogenic micro-foci in papillary thyroid carcinoma nodules and metastatic lymph nodes represent in histopathology?

Bahcecioglu Begum , Gursoy Alptekin , Ilgan Seyfettin , Bilezikci Banu , Dizbay Sak Serpil , Erdogan Murat

Objective: Ultrasonographic (US) echogenic micro-foci are frequently seen in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). General belief is that microcalcifications represent psammoma bodies. But the subject is debatable and other sonographic intranodular echogenic figures can be seen in PTC. We aimed to examine the nonshadowing echogenic figures and their histopathological correlations in PTC.Methods: We prospectively collected US video records of PTC cases with ...