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. 2023 Dec 22;12(6):e230121. doi: 10.1530/ETJ-23-0121

Table 2.

Ultrasonographic features of thyroid metastasis from clear cell renal cell carcinoma reported in previous studies.

Study Year Cases reported, n Ultrasonographic features
Vandemergel et al. (4) 2021 1 Single lesion, solid, hypoechoic, irregular shape, lobulated, without calcification, and with rich blood flow
Tian et al. (5) 2020 1 Multiple lesions, hypoechoic, solid-cystic, unclear boundary, with calcification, and with relatively rich blood flow
Al Abdrabalnabi et al. (6) 2019 1 Single lesion, solid-cystic, unclear boundary, without calcification
Song et al. (7) 2017 9 Single lesion (3/9), multiple lesions (6/9), solid (9/9), hypoechoic (9/9), clear boundary (8/9), with calcification (0/9), and with rich blood flow (9/9)
Gheorghiu et al. (8) 2016 1 Single lesion, mixed echoic, solid-cystic, clear boundary, without calcification and with rich blood flow in the solid region
Cilengir et al. (9) 2016 1 Single lesion, solid, hypoechoic, with clear boundary, irregular shape, lobulated, with microcalcification, and with rich blood flow
Kobayashi et al. (10) 2015 10 Single lesion (8/10), multiple lesions (2/10), solid (10/10), hypoechoic (10/10), clear boundary (10/10), irregular shape (9/10), without calcification (10/10), and with rich blood flow (10/10)
Andrioli et al. (11) 2014 1 Single lesion, solid, hypoechoic, without calcification, posterior irregular margins, and with rich blood flow