Clinical specialty
Professor Valentin Schafer MD is the head of the Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology at the University Hospital in Bonn. In this video, Professor Valentin will demonstrate how to use ultrasound scanning to diagnose thyroid disease.
Ultrasound scanning of the thyroid is a very beneficial tool to diagnose thyroid disease because ultra scanning provides real-time and accurate imagery of the thyroid gland. As Professor Valentin is this his first or last name, medically you always go with the last name. Same applies to all his videos. demonstrates in this video, he uses a linear ultrasound probe and places it on the patient’s trachea and moves the ultrasound probe up and down the neck to produce a clear image of the thyroid gland.
Professor Valentin talks us through what medical professionals need to be wary of: how to detect any lumps or nodules in the thyroid gland and also explains how to detect and measure the thyroid gland horizontally and linearly.
Watch this video below to learn how to correctly find the thyroid gland on a patient and how to successfully detect any abnormalities.
