...Shruthi Arora; Jane Khoury; Andrew T. Trout; Janet Chuang Introduction: The standard workup of thyroid nodules concerning for malignancy includes fine-needle aspiration (FNA). In 2015, the American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines for the management of pediatric thyroid nodules recommended...

...Ana Creo; Fares Alahdab; Alaa Al Nofal; Kristen Thomas; Amy Kolbe; Siobhan T. Pittock Background: Pediatric thyroid nodules are more likely to be malignant compared to those in adults and may have different concerning ultrasound (US) features. Recent adult guidelines stratify malignancy risk by US...

... healthy tissue is characteristic of malignancy (in most thyroid carcinomas, except for follicular thyroid carcinoma). The purpose of our study was to assess the deformation of thyroid nodules and to evaluate the usefulness of elastography in predicting malignant thyroid nodules in adolescent patients...

...Aldo Pinchera Background: The prevalence of thyroid nodules in the general population varies according to the method of detection in use. In large population studies, about 5% of subjects have palpable thyroid nodules, while autopsy studies reveal a 49–57% prevalence of thyroid nodules that were...

...-seven of the patients had a cold nodule on scintiscanning. The most common cause of solitary thyroid nodules was follicuar adenoma (68.9%). Fifteen of the 77 cold nodules were malignant (19.9%). The frequency of carcinoma in males was 26.3%, while in females it was 13.5%. Our experience suggests...

...G. Cerbone; S. Spiezia; A. Colao; A. Di Sarno; A.P. Assanti; R. Lucci; M. Siciliani; G. Lombardi; G. Fenzi The usefulness of a recent color Doppler (CD) ultrasonography technique, named power Doppler (PD), was evaluated in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules showing low or absent uptake of 99m Tc...