Elastography Interest in the Management of Thyroid Nodules

"ShearWave" Elastography Interest in the Management of Thyroid Nodules

Define an ultrasound/elastography benignity criteria in strategy management of a patient population carries one or more thyroid nodules.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient aged over 18 years old
• Patient affiliated to social security or similarly regime
• Patients referred for fine needle aspiration or surgery with one or more thyroid nodules

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with too much thyroid nodules or topography too imprecise to allow unambiguous correlation between echo/elastography data and histology/cytology data
• Patients withan echography/elastography indications cons
• Pregnant women and lactating mothers
• Adult unable to express their consent
• Ward of court or under guardianship
• Person under legal protection
• Person deprived of freedom by judicial or administrative decision
• Person hospitalized without their consent