Thyroid masses heterogeneous & hypoechoic

[KK789]

I had an ultrasound test for my thyroid. they are small..my blood work was fine as well.

test: sonographic gray scale and color doppler imaging of the thyroid gland.

The left lobe mes: 3.5 x 1.2 x 1.4 cm
the right lobe mes: 3.7 x 1.1 x 1.2 cm
the isthmus mes: 3 mm

within the mid right lobe, there is a heterogeneous solid mass that measures 8 x 8 x 6 mm.
adjacent, there is a smaller hypoechoic mass measures 3 x 2 x 4 mm.
there are no focal masses within the left lobe.
the echotexture is homogenous and normal.

granted, i know they are small but do the names assoicated with my masses mean a higher risk.  it never states anything of a halo or ill/well defined or if the hypoechoic is solid or not too. i hope my endo wont dismiss this for them being small.

[KK789]

i can't believe you had to wait that long.. that's an eternity. and all along it was. did they give yours a name like heterogeneous or hypoechoic.. to stew over til the fna?  how big were yours when they first found them. I'm very confident that either way like you said it's treatable and if you get it more or less that's the place to get it b/c of the ability to removed and get rid of it.

[KK789]

It doesn't say on my report about it at all. It also doesn't state if there is or isn't a halo, is or isn't ill/well defined lines or vascular. The first is noted that it is "solid" the second.. that's really small... it doesn't state it. but it is hypoechoic... which means dense and dark...( summed up in my words lol.) which could mean possibly solid. They did do the color doppler. but the radiologist was very vague and left out details of what i really was curious about.

[MANmom]

Solid does not always mean cancer, there is only a 5-15% chance that they are...my solid nodules were NOT cancerous, but the mixed one was all cancer.  They really can't tell, there is no way to tell unless you hit the cancer in the biopsy or if you take them out and do a biopsy.  Normally it is very hard to even hit the nodule with a very small needle until they get to 1 cm.  The thing to remember is that if by chance it is cancer, it grows very slowly, usually doesn't spread, and is highly curable.  I know it very hard not to know, I went almost 6 months after my biopsy to find out.  But I had nodules for at least 8 years before they were big enough to biopsy, enen then I did not get a diagnosis until after surgery.  Were they vascular?  Check the report, cancer needs a blood supply to grow, if they are vascular, then your chances are higher, but again, it is not necessarily a sure thing.

[KK789]

EVEN IF THEY ARE BOTH SOLID? I AM WORRIED THAT .. THAT WILL HAPPEN. WHAT CRITERIA WILL THEY DO ONE IF IT'S UNDER 1 CM?

[MANmom]

You will have to watch them, but for now, they are too small to have a biopsy.  They usually don't do a biopsy until they reach 1 cm unless you have a family history of problems.