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Hyalinizing trabecular tumor of the thyroid gland: characteristic features on ultrasonography

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We report a case of hyalinizing trabecular tumor of the thyroid gland and describe the characteristic ultrasonographic features of this tumor. This was a rare tumor of follicular cell origin with a trabecular pattern of growth and marked intratrabecular hyalinization. The tumor had an irregular shape, a delicately jagged border, and hypoechoic and heterogeneous internal echoes on B-mode ultrasonography. Very rich intratumoral blood flow, the so-called “tumor inferno” was evident on power Doppler ultrasonography. In the clinical management of thyroid nodules, clinicians should be aware of this peculiar type of thyroid tumor and its characteristic ultrasonographic findings.

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  1. Kuma Hospital, 8-2-35 Simoyamate-dori, Chuo, Kobe, 650-0011, Japan

    Kaoru Kobayashi, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Tomoo Jikuzono, Shuji Fukata, Nobuyuki Amino & Akira Miyauchi

  2. Wakayama Medical College, 2nd Pathology, Wakayama, Japan

    Yasushi Nakamura

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Kobayashi, K., Hirokawa, M., Jikuzono, T. et al. Hyalinizing trabecular tumor of the thyroid gland: characteristic features on ultrasonography. J Med Ultrasonics 34, 43–47 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-006-0119-6

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