Thyroid ultrasound
Thyroid ultrasound
Services offered at the Polyclinique Centre-Ville
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Ultrasound of the thyroid is a simple examination, non-invasive evaluation and very useful for the diagnosis of thyroid diseases, especially thyroid nodules.
Thyroid ultrasounds are performed using an ultrasonic probe. The doctor moves this sensor on the neck to observe the thyroid gland, any thyroid nodules and their dimensions, consistency (solid, liquid compounds or mixed), their dangerousness (10% of solid nodules are cancerous) and quantity.
It is through this evaluation and the aspect of the thyroid that certain thyroid diseases can be diagnosed.
The ultrasound has the advantage of being painless and harmless;
Thyroid ultrasound, preceded by a neck palpation is performed on a patient lying on their back, head slightly extended. The exam includes an overview of the two lobes and the isthmus. It is complemented by an analysis of bilateral cervical lymph nodes and looking for a tracheal impact and / or the inclined nature of the thyroid gland.
Thyroid nodules, “bumps” visible or incidentally discovered throughout a neck examination by an ENT or your family doctor, or during a routine ultrasound, are very common for the over-all population and are benign in more than 90% of cases.
Larger nodules and nodules that have suspicious characteristics on an ultrasound should be sampled to exclude malignancy or cancer. Thyroid cancers are rare (10 to 12% of thyroid tumors) and in 90% of cases they have a good prognosis. They represent only 1.2% of all cancers.
Our Specialists
Dr. Leboeuf received her medical degree from McGill University. She then completed her training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Sherbrooke. In order to obtain her expertise in thyroid cancer, she undertook additional training at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York for 2 years. She then made several clinical and basic researches. During nearly 3 three years she worked as an endocrinologist at this institution, treating patients with thyroid cancer and doing research on refractory cancers. Since September 2010, she is an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and works as an endocrinologist specialized in thyroid cancer at the CHUM, in the endocrinology department and also at the Polyclinique Centre-Ville.
Dr. Gologan graduated from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest in 1996. She continued her training in the United States. She first completed her residency in Anatomical Pathology and Clinical Pathology at Continuum Health Partners (Beth Israel Hospital and St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital) at Columbia University under the direction of Dr. Bruce Wenig, and then a fellowship in surgical pathology and specifically in diseases of the Head and Neck at UPMC Pittsburgh under the supervision of Dr. Leon Barnes, followed by another fellowship in cytopathology at Allegheny General Hospital Drexel University. Currently, she works as a pathologist in charge of Head and Neck and Thyroid pathologies at the CHUM Department of Pathology and the Polyclinique Centre-Ville.
After completing his training in medicine and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Laval, Dr. Bondaz completed his endocrinology fellowship at University of Montreal. He later finished a subspecialized clinical fellowship in thyroid diseases and ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules at Women’s College Hospital, in Toronto. He also enrolled in a Clinical Teacher Certificate at the University of Toronto. Now that he is back in Montreal, he is a member of the endocrinology service of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. He also practices at Polyclinique Centre-Ville, where he focuses his clinical work on thyroid nodule evaluation. Aside from that, he is involved in the teaching of medical students and residents.