Sonographic Screening for Thyroid Cancer in Females Undergoing Breast Sonography
Jeong Seon Park1,
Ki Keun Oh1,
Eun-Kyung Kim1,
Hang-Seok Chang2 and
Soon Won Hong3
1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yonsei University, College of Medicine,
146-92 Dogok-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-720, Korea.
2 Department of Surgery, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Kangnam-gu,
Seoul 135-720, Korea.
3 Department of Pathology, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Kangnam-gu,
Seoul 135-720, Korea.

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Fig. 1A 58-year-old woman with breast cancer. Breast sonogram shows 1.5-cm
irregular hypoechoic mass (arrow).
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Fig. 1B 58-year-old woman with breast cancer. Simultaneously obtained
thyroid sonogram shows 5-mm hypoechoic nodule (arrow). Case was
diagnosed as invasive ductal carcinoma of breast and papillary carcinoma of
thyroid gland.
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Fig. 2A 48-year-old woman with incidentally detected thyroid cancer.
Negative finding on breast sonogram.
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Fig. 2B 48-year-old woman with incidentally detected thyroid cancer.
Simultaneously obtained thyroid sonogram shows 2.2-cm irregular-shaped,
hypoechoic nodule (arrow) with internal heterogeneity, which was
diagnosed as papillary carcinoma.
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