...Tamas Solymosi; Laszlo Hegedüs; Steen Joop Bonnema; Andrea Frasoldati; Laszlo Jambor; Gabor Laszlo Kovacs; Enrico Papini; Karoly Rucz; Gilles Russ; Zsolt Karanyi; Endre V. Nagy Background: Thyroid nodule image reporting and data systems (TIRADS) provide the indications for fine-needle aspiration...

... thyroid nodule(s) (AFTNs). The prevalence of the syndrome and suitable treatments for those living in iodine-sufficient areas are uncertain. Objectives: We aimed to investigate the prevalence, treatment, and prognosis of MLS in Japan, an iodine-sufficient area. Methods: This study involved patients who...

...Alexander Gorshtein; Ilana Slutzky-Shraga; Eyal Robenshtok; Carlos Benbassat; Dania Hirsch Objective: Outcomes of patients with cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules not referred for thyroidectomy have hardly been investigated. We previously reported outcomes of 322 patients with thyroid...

.... Autoimmune thyroid disease Lymphoproliferative disorder Methotrexate Thyroid lymphoma Thyroid nodule Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are treated with methotrexate (MTX) occasionally develop lymphoproliferative disorders (LPDs) [ 1, 2 ]. MTX withdrawal often induces prompt regression...

...Enrico Papini; Hervé Monpeyssen; Andrea Frasoldati; Laszlo Hegedüs Standard therapeutic approaches for benign thyroid lesions that warrant intervention are surgery for cold and either surgery or radioiodine for autonomously functioning thyroid nodules (AFTN). Image-guided thermal ablation (TA...

...Lei Xu; Junling Gao; Quan Wang; Jichao Yin; Pengfei Yu; Bin Bai; Ruixia Pei; Dingzhang Chen; Guochun Yang; Shiqi Wang; Mingxi Wan Background: Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems are being applied to the ultrasonographic diagnosis of malignant thyroid nodules, but it remains controversial whether...

...Giorgio Grani; Livia Lamartina; Valeria Ramundo; Rosa Falcone; Cristiano Lomonaco; Laura Ciotti; Martina Barone; Marianna Maranghi; Vito Cantisani; Sebastiano Filetti; Cosimo Durante Introduction: A taller-than-wide (TTW) shape is a suspicious feature of thyroid nodules commonly defined...

...Bülent Öcal; Mehmet Hakan Korkmaz; Demet Yılmazer; Tuğba Taşkın Türkmenoğlu; Ömer Bayır; Güleser Saylam; Emel Çadallı Tatar; Sevilay Karahan; Erman Çakal Objectives: The majority of thyroid nodules are discovered incidentally, and the management may be a challenge if the fine needle aspiration...

... referred to the reference center when diagnosed with thyroid nodules, and they underwent thyroid palpation and a neck US. If a thyroid nodule with at least 1 cm in the greatest dimension and/or suspicious sonographic characteristics for malignancy was detected (hypoechogenicity, microcalcifications...

... aimed at ascertaining the prevalence of Thy3 thyroid nodules in a hitherto unreported ethnic group (residents of the United Arab Emirates). Methods: We retrospectively examined 688 FNA of the thyroid performed on 584 patients. Samples were reported using the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Thy...

...Gilles Russ; Steen J. Bonnema; Murat Faik Erdogan; Cosimo Durante; Rose Ngu; Laurence Leenhardt Thyroid ultrasound (US) is a key examination for the management of thyroid nodules. Thyroid US is easily accessible, noninvasive, and cost-effective, and is a mandatory step in the workup of thyroid...

...Carles Zafon; Juan J. Díez; Juan C. Galofré; David S. Cooper The management of thyroid nodules, one of the main clinical challenges in endocrine clinical practice, is usually straightforward. Although the most important concern is ruling out malignancy, there are grey areas where uncertainty...

...Sravanthi Nagavalli; Marelle Yehuda; Laron W. McPhaul; Andrew G. Gianoukakis Background: We present a case of a cervical schwannoma, likely originating from the pharyngeal plexus of the vagal nerve. The lesion masqueraded as a thyroid nodule and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assisted...

...Roberto Negro; Roberto Attanasio; Franco Grimaldi; Andrea Frasoldati; Rinaldo Guglielmi; Enrico Papini; on behalf of AME (Associazione Medici Endocrinologi) and AACE (American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists) Italian Chapter Background: While thyroid nodules are frequent in endocrine...

... thyroid nodules Fig. 1 The needle notch of CNB is positioned to include a portion of normal parenchyma (about 2 mm in length; arrows) at the margin of a nodule. Fig. 1. The needle notch of CNB is positioned to include a portion of normal parenchyma (about 2 mm in length; arrows...

..., but is much higher if based on focal FDG uptake (30%). All patients with a thyroid incidentaloma, independent of the mode of detection, should undergo a dedicated neck US with risk stratification: US imaging allows a quantitative risk stratification of malignancy in thyroid nodules, named ‘reporting system...

... and specificity analysis, we selected two cell lines, one specific for amino acids 11-23 and the other specific for amino acids 17-32. Calcitonin Medullary thyroid carcinoma Thyroid nodule Autoimmune thyroid disease Immunometric assay Serum calcitonin (sCT) is a useful biomarker for medullary...

... to in the content or advertisements. Thyroid nodule Ultrasonography Core biopsy Histological diagnosis Hospital committee Radiological scans of the neck (ultrasound (US), computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging), in many cases carried out for reasons unrelated to the thyroid gland, lead...