Combined Sonography
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Deepak Shrestha; Naomi Sakai; Duraisamy Ravichandran; Thayahlan Iyngkaran
- Source
- Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography. 32:264-268
- Subject
- Thyroid nodules
medicine.medical_specialty
Consultant surgeon
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Single visit
General surgery
Thyroid
Surgery clinic
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Fine needle aspiration cytology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Biopsy
Medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiology
Ultrasonography
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1552-5430
8756-4793
We report the results of a joint thyroid clinic with a consultant surgeon and consultant radiologist to offer “triple assessment” for patients on a single visit. All new referrals from September 2011 to December 2013 were reviewed. Among 228 patients referred, 163 patients underwent ultrasonography (US) on the same visit and 66 fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) studies (57 under US guidance) were done. One hundred ninety-eight (87%) patients made a single visit to the clinic for diagnosis. One hundred twenty-five were discharged or referred elsewhere after the visit and 21 underwent surgery; the remaining 52 patients were followed up. There were 7 thyroid cancers and 2 lymphomas diagnosed. We have concluded that the joint ultrasound-surgery clinic provided an effective outpatient thyroid service with fewer hospital visits.