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to determine the cut-off value with maximum sensitivity and specificity for pre-Tg and pre-Tg/TSH ratio. Differences in the therapeutic effect of RRA and serum lipids in different TSH groups were evaluated using Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal
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preoperatively. However, the sensitivity and specificity of US in the diagnosis of LNM are limited and rely on the experience of the radiologist to a large extent. It has been reported that preoperative US can only identify malignant central compartment LNs in 20
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analyze the influence of TSH value and AFTN diameter on ACR-TIRADS, calculating the area under the curve (AUC) and identifying the best cut-off point and its related sensitivity and specificity with a 95% confidence interval (95% CI). A multivariate
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Giovanella et al. documented good ProCt performances in this setting, with a sensitivity and specificity of 0.93 (95% CI: 0.85–0.97) and 0.91 (95% CI: 0.20–1.00), respectively. However, only few studies are available in the literature on this issue, and the
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to predict the response to the treatment; we also tried to find a potential LT4-Tg and rhTSH-Tg cutoff (data not shown), but the low sensitivity and specificity made our result ineffective. In this regard, we agree with Rosario et al. ( 22 ), who
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. A previous validation study showed good sensitivity and specificity of the diagnoses and procedure records in the database ( 25 ). The need for informed consent in the present study was waived because of the anonymity of the patient database. Study