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Revision as of 14:43, 12 November 2015

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2]

CT scan may be helpful in the diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer.

CT is best at staging lymph node involvement (see thyroid cancer staging). Involved lymph nodes tend to have any of the following features:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Image courtesy of Dr David Cuete. Radiopaedia (original file ‘’here’’.Creative Commons BY-SA-NC

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 ==CT Examples of Papillary thyroid cancer==
 [[File:Miliary metastasis from papillary thyroid cancer CT.jpeg|thumb|center|Papillary thyroid cancer CT miliary metastasis<ref name=radio> Image courtesy of  Dr David Cuete. [http://www.radiopaedia.org Radiopaedia] (original file [http://radiopaedia.org/articles/papillary-thyroid-cancer ‘’here’’].[http://radiopaedia.org/licence Creative Commons BY-SA-NC]</ref>]]
+[[File:CT papillary miliary metastasis.jpg|thumb|center|Papillary thyroid cancer CT miliary metastasis<ref name=radio> Image courtesy of  Dr Hani Al Salam. [http://www.radiopaedia.org Radiopaedia] (original file [http://radiopaedia.org/articles/papillary-thyroid-cancer ‘’here’’].[http://radiopaedia.org/licence Creative Commons BY-SA-NC]</ref>]]
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