What are the advantages of thyroid nodule puncture in medicine?

There are different types of thyroid nodules, so there are different methods to treat thyroid nodules clinically. More often, doctors will recommend thyroid nodule puncture to patients, which causes patients to have doubts about this method. So, what are the advantages of thyroid nodule puncture in clinical practice?

Advantages of thyroid nodule puncture

① High diagnostic rate: Compared with standard fine needle aspiration biopsy, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration has a higher diagnostic rate for thyroid nodules;

② Early detection of malignant lesions: Fine needle aspiration is the first choice for evaluation of thyroid enlargement and nodules, which can increase the detection rate of thyroid cancer by 2 times;

③. Small trauma, high safety, strong practicality and low cost;

④. The "gold" standard for surgical method selection: Ultrasound-guided thyroid nodule puncture provides tissue pathological evidence for surgery and surgical procedure selection, and is the basis for surgical method selection.

Indications for thyroid nodule puncture

②, Diffuse thyroid disease with thyroid enlargement;

②. Thyroid cystic lesions: simple cysts, hemorrhage in normal or pathological thyroid tissue, cysts formed by benign thyroid adenoma or nodule degeneration, cysts formed by degeneration of thyroid adenoma, parathyroid cysts; ③. Thyroid nodules: single or multiple thyroid adenomas or nodules, malignant tumors, purulent thyroiditis, thyroid adenoma;