What makes a lymph node suspicious

• By cabro
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• March 1, 2012 at 7:57 am
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It's the characteristics. Usually, there is a report that goes with the pictures that describes the characteristics that could make it suspicious, for example, hypoechoic features, irregular margins, psammoma bodies, loss of fatty hilum, and so forth. Or they might not have found normal "reactive" nodes or other benign features.

TMI??? :-)) I do hope things turn out all right for you.

• By whiskers707 (Inactive)
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• March 1, 2012 at 8:13 am
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when i had my ultrasound done, the technician bought in the radiologist to look..the radiologist said there are 4 things that make a node suspicious. of course i was so afraid all i remember is he said round was one of them and heterogenous, speckles in them. i forget the other two indications to make a node suspicious. i had the speckling one, one doc, original surgeon said wait and watch in 6 mos. my endo said she wants is biopsied now..so of course, i am going for biopsy. Now remember, this coming from a woman who was scared and i don't remember well anyway during the ultrasound. My experience only. Hope all works out good for you!!!

• By PennyLane326
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• March 1, 2012 at 9:20 am
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Because my 1 year stimulated Tg went up, my endo ordered an ultrasound. During it they found 2 suspicious nodes because of their characteristics. The 1st is round hypoechoic without obvious fatty hilum. The 2nd is a prominent node appearing somewhat heterogeneous, indistinct & hypervascular. I had 2nd one biopsyied since it was larger & easier to get to, and surprisely the results came back non cancer. So now I am just being watched more closely. I am not quite sure of the how and why reasons for it being noncancerous; My endo didn't speak with me directly about the good news(I guess I should call him especially since I still can't help but wonder about them?) Perhaps they are precancerous - IF that exists for us thyroid cancer patients; Maybe that's why my endo is monitoring me more closely. Wish I could help more. The best of luck to you and hopefully it will be no cancer!!!