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]. Risk Stratification of Thyroid Incidentalomas with Ultrasound Can US be used as an accessible, simple and inexpensive tool to sort the wheat from the chaff among thyroid incidentalomas? Thyroid US was first used as a tool to measure, count and locate
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European Thyroid Association Guidelines for Ultrasound Malignancy Risk Stratification of Thyroid Nodules were introduced as a European version of TIRADS (EU-TIRADS) in 2017 [ 4 ], a TIRADS modification by Kwak et al. [ 5 ] (Kw-TIRADS) had been used for
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, however, remains a diagnostic challenge. In Denmark, scintigraphy and ultrasound are performed as part of the investigation in which cold nodules on scintigraphy and suspicious nodules on ultrasound are further investigated with fine-needle aspiration (FNA
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Introduction Ultrasound-guided thyroid fine needle aspiration and biopsy (FNAB) has become the test of choice for evaluation of thyroid nodules. It combines ease of access and a high sensitivity and specificity to offer reliable results to aid
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Results of the Thyroid Ultrasound Examinations In October 2011, as a result of the March 2011 nuclear accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, the Fukushima Prefecture initiated a thyroid
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[ 3 ]. Historically, 2 methods of thyroid examination have been used: palpation and cervical ultrasound [ 7 ]. When available, the latter method is considered better for determining the size of the thyroid gland [ 8 , 9 ], particularly in areas where