Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies (May 2014)

Remarkable Calcifications in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

  • Mukut Roy,
  • Pranab Kumar Sahana,
  • Nilanjan Sengupta,
  • Chanchal Das,
  • Ranen Dasgupta

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2

Abstract

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Various patterns of calcifications may be seen in thyroid cancers on ultrasonography (USG) of thyroid.1 Coarse calcifications seen in medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) are generally associated with posterior shadowing on thyroid ultrasound.2 We briefly report this case of MTC with an emphasis on its radiological features