MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING OF THYROID SWELLINGS

The preoperative diagnosis of some thyroid neoplasms remains difficult even with the routine use of fine-needle aspiration cytology. The pot ential of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to discriminate bet ween different thyroid pathologies was explored prospectively and comp ared with the final pathology in series of 37 patients, MRI yielded hi gh-quality images of the thyroid swelling but did not provide addition al information to differentiate benign from neoplastic lesions. MRI do es not contribute to the routine management of thyroid swellings.