Characteristic ultrasound properties
of malignant lymph nodes - irregular borders of the node
Secondary thyroid cancers - Case 16: metastasis of a
malignant melanoma to thy thyroid and neck lymph nodes
Papillary carcinomas - Case 46: metastasis to the neck
lymph nodes
Note the surface irregularities of the node and the lack of regular
hilum. The blurred borders of the dorsal surface is a techniqual
artifact caused by the wrong setting of the focus.
There were only two suspicious signs in this node. First, the lack of
hilum and second, the irrregular surface.
