The thyroid is an organ with many diseases, especially for women, and seriously affects health, so screening and regular examination including the thyroid area is necessary. Thyroid ultrasound is one of the most common examinations to monitor health status.

Thyroid diseases cause many troubles as well as dangerous complications for patients if not detected and treated promptly. Thyroid ultrasound is one of the techniques that helps diagnose thyroid diseases. So what is thyroid ultrasound? What is the effect of thyroid ultrasound? The following article will present the above issues.

Thyroid ultrasound is an imaging diagnostic technique performed using an ultrasound machine with the purpose of diagnosing thyroid diseases or related diseases in the neck area.

Thyroid ultrasound is intended for general health examination and is indicated when the doctor clinically suspects a neck mass, goiter, mass in the mediastinum, or when the clinical examination is normal but thyroid disease is suspected through other tests.

Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine tumor and, if diagnosed, treated early can effectively prevent thyroid cancer from progressing. Accordingly, the rapid differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid nodules from the very beginning requires the application of the value of ultrasound and the TIRADS classification.