Characterization of Thyroid Disorders Using Doppler Ultrasonography & Thyroid Uptake Scan

Abstract

IV Abstract The aim of this study is characterizing the thyroid gland using Doppler Ultrasonography and Thyroid Scintigraphy using GE introduces Discovery NM-CT 670 pro and Q.Merix at nuclear medicine department and GE Logiq E9 equipment at ultrasound department at King Saud Medical Center (KSMC) in Saudi Arabia. The total number of patients was 144 where the males were 33 with percent 22.9 and the number of females was 111 with percent 77.1. The results showed that the group statistics for patients according to their gender. For TSH the mean ± standard deviation for female was 0.88 ± 1.89 and for male was 1.377 ± 3.82, for T4 female was 32.47 ± 31.51 and for male was 31.39 ± 19.77, for right lobe length female was 4.99 ± 1.79 and for male was 5.77 ± 1.75, right lobe width for female was 2.99 ± 1.47 and for male was 3.09 ± 1.52, right lobe size female was 14.53 ± 7.37 and for male was 17.83 ± 8.75, right lobe volume for female was 14.95 ± 12.999 and for male was 19.41 ± 17.77. For left lobe length for female was 4.55± 1.87 and for male was 5.64 ± 2.14, left lobe width for female was 2.74 ± 1.44 and for male was 3.17 ± 153, left lobe size for female 12.71 ± 7.65 and for male was 18.92 ± 10.83, left lobe volume for female was 11.35 ± 9.97 and for male was 17.55 ± 16.10, for thyroid uptake for female was 7.43 ± 9.21 and for male was 8.74 ± 9.89. Analysis of variance for thyroid uptake with other variables, where the p-value show no significant difference between the thyroid uptake with right lobe length, right lobe width, right lobe size, right lobe volume and left lobe volume were the p-value was 0.550, 0.105, 0.992, 0.965 and 0.938 respectively. While show significant difference between the thyroid uptake with left lobe length, left lobe width and left lobe size were the p-value was 0.047, 0.000 and 0.004 respectively. Correlation between the thyroid uptake with t4 hormone were the rate of change for thyroid uptake increase by 0.1172 with each value for T4 hormone.