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. 2022 Apr 27:2022:5248230.
doi: 10.1155/2022/5248230. eCollection 2022.

Application Value of Color Doppler Ultrasonography Combined with Thyroid Autoantibody Tests in Early Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

Danlin Song  1 , Fajin Dong  1 , Jing Zheng  1 , Hui Luo  1 , Jinxi Wei  2
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Application Value of Color Doppler Ultrasonography Combined with Thyroid Autoantibody Tests in Early Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

Danlin Song et al. Comput Math Methods Med. .

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Abstract

Objective: To explore the application value of color Doppler ultrasonography combined with thyroid autoantibody tests in the early diagnosis of thyroid cancer.

Methods: The medical data of 100 patients with thyroid nodules treated in our hospital from June 2019 to June 2021 were retrospectively analyzed; all patients received color Doppler ultrasonography and thyroid autoantibody tests before surgery and were divided into the benign lesion group (n = 45) and the malignant lesion group (n = 55) according to the postoperative pathological findings (the gold standard), so as to compare and analyze the application value of color Doppler ultrasonography, thyroid autoantibody tests, and their combination in the early diagnosis of thyroid cancer.

Results: Compared with the pathological findings, the accuracy rate, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the combined diagnosis were significantly higher than those in the single diagnosis of color Doppler ultrasonography, TgAb test, TPOAb test, and TRAb test (P < 0.05), and by plotting the ROC curves to analyze the effect of these modalities in diagnosing early thyroid diseases, the results showed that the areas under the curve from large to small were combined diagnosis, color Doppler ultrasonography, TgAb test, TPOAb test, and TRAb test.

Conclusion: Color Doppler ultrasonography has many advantages in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules, such as easy operation, painlessness, noninvasiveness, high efficiency, and repeatable detection, and the high-definition probe is able to show tiny lesions, echogenicity, blood flow signal, and other characteristics of foci. Combining color Doppler ultrasonography with testing thyroid autoantibodies such as TgAb, TPOAb, and TRAb can effectively improve the detection rate of early thyroid cancer, presenting significant reference value and meaning to clinical diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer.

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