Study of Thyroid Pathologies using Ultrasonography

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of high frequency ultrasound in detection of thyroid pathologies. It is descriptive analytic study. This study was conducted in Antalya medical center and Ibrahim Malik hospital during period from October 2016 to February 2017. The thyroid ultrasonography was done by using direct adhesion technology with linear array transducer with range of frequency from 7.5 -10 MHZ. Data was analyzed using Excel program. The sample were randomly selected (50) patients, the female patients 90% and male patients 10%. The age groups of patients range between (12-70) years old. The result of this study showed that 26% of patients had simple goiter, 46% of patients had multi nodular goiter, 20%had diffuse goiter and 8% of patients had toxic goiter. The results showed that the most affected patients with thyroid pathologies (48%) came from middle of Sudan, followed by the west of Sudan (26%).