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Introduction Clinical management of the thyroid nodules is based on a combination of clinical risk factors, functional status, ultrasound patterns, and cytologic findings when fine needle aspiration (FNA) is indicated ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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-TIRADS) classification and to evaluate their cytological and molecular aspect. Materials and Methods Patients and study design This is a single-centre, observational, prospective study performed between March 2018 and September 2021, on 901 patients aged ≥18
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Introduction For more than three decades, the cornerstones in the clinical management of patients with thyroid nodules have been ultrasound (US) and fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNA) ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). Robust evidence demonstrates that the
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Introduction Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a rapid, cost-effective, and safe test, which is widely used for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules [ 1 ]. The positive predictive value of a malignant FNA cytology (FNAC) result is 97-99% according
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cytology (FNAC) which are believed to be less subject to the potential selection bias of surgical series [ 10 , 11 ]. However, according to FNAC studies, the link between PTC and HT appears less evident. The aim of the present review will be to briefly
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Introduction/Background Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has high sensitivity and specificity in distinguishing benign from malignant thyroid lesions [ 1 ]. However, in 2–16% of cases cytology is not diagnostic [ 2 ], i.e., the material is
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clinically apparent thyroid nodules is between 5 and 15% [ 2 ]. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology has demonstrated high utility in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. In an effort to stratify thyroid nodules according to risk of malignancy in a consistent
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(< 1 cm) may harbor cancer. Therefore, every effort should be made either clinically or cytologically to predict malignancy in order to perform the appropriate surgery with the correct indication. It is critical to improve the diagnostic accuracy and
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, 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Thyroid ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) can be a noninvasive and useful tool to confirm the diagnosis and prevent unnecessary transcranial biopsy ( 3 , 8 ). Here we present the case of a young
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subjected to fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and stratified according to their BMI. This selection approach should theoretically avoid the above-reported bias as well as the bias connected to surgical series where the criteria for surgery may not be