【Abstract】Diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma is a rare and special type of thyroid papillary carcinoma. It is characterized by high invasion, early metastasis and poor prognosis. Because of the low incidence of the disease, hidden clinical manifestations, difficult to touch the goiter mass, and the lack of knowledges and experience in diagnosis of the disease by imaging physicians and clinicians, it is easy to be misdiagnosed or delayed diagnosis. At present, the imaging data of diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma are more common in ultrasound, X-ray, CT, etc. This paper reviews the imaging findings of diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma, aiming at preliminarily summarize its imaging findings.