The usefulness of ultrasound in identifying the underlying findings linked to pain in podagra patients.

Aim: To explore whether ultrasound (US) can be employed to identify the underlying characteristics associated with pain in patients with podagra by evaluating the relationship between ultrasound findings and clinical pain.

Material And Methods:  Patients with podagra were recruited and grouped into a pain group (G1, 82 patients) and a non pain group (G2, 123 patients). US features were collected and compared.

Preoperative Clinical and Ultrasonographic Predictors for Aggressive Behaviors in Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinomas.

To explore the clinical and ultrasonographic predictors for aggressive behaviors preoperatively in sporadic medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTCs). The preoperative clinical and ultrasonographic characteristics of patients diagnosed with MTCs between January 2009 and May 2022 were retrospectively reviewed. MTCs were described and categorized according to the American College of Radiology (ACR) thyroid imaging reporting and data system classification by 2 radiologists.

Distribution patterns of microcalcifications in suspected thyroid carcinoma: a classification method helpful for diagnosis.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the distribution patterns of microcalcifications in thyroid cancers with benign cases.

Methods: In total, 358 patients having microcalcifications on ultrasonography were analysed. Microcalcifications were categorised according to the distribution patterns: (I) microcalcifications inside one (a) or more (b) suspected nodules, (II) microcalcifications not only inside but also surrounding a suspected single (a) or multiple (b) nodules, and (III) focal (a) or diffuse (b) microcalcifications in the absence of any suspected nodule.