Ultrasound scanning protocol for the parathyroid
Parathyroid
Assess:
- Thyroid echotexture
- Thyroid size
- Thyroid contour
- Superior to thyroid
- Deep to thyroid
- Inferior to thyroid
- Superior mediasteinum via supra-sternal notch
Standard documentation
- Longitudnal views right and left lobes lateral / mid / medial
- Transverse views right and left lobes superior / mid / inferior
- Lobe measurements long / transverse
- Transverse view of isthmus
- transverse viewa superior and inferior to thyroid lobes
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