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Introduction Current postoperative follow-up (FU) and dynamic response to treatment (RTT) assessment of thyroid cancer primarily depends on postoperative neck ultrasound (POU) and thyroglobulin (Tg) determination ( 1 ). This FU strategy is
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Introduction Thyroid ultrasound (TUS) is the most sensitive and cost-effective modality for the evaluation of thyroid nodules ( 1 ). When thyroid nodules are incidentally discovered on other imaging modalities, current guidelines suggest that
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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 Risk stratification of thyroid nodules uses ultrasound features predictive of benign or malignant disease to identify nodules that should undergo biopsy. Biopsy is an invasive procedure and may not yield a final diagnosis one out
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crucial determinants of serum TSH ( 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ). When scintigraphy is routinely performed in thyroid nodule workup, it allows detection of AFTN at early stages before progression to subclinical and/or overt hyperthyroidism. Ultrasound
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-up; (iii) to analyse a diagnostic performance of ultrasound (US) for thyroid cancer in pregnancy; and (iv) to evaluate associations between thyroid nodules as well as cancers diagnosed during pregnancy and the history of thyroid diseases, reproductive
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Established facts Already known fact 1: Thyroid metastasis from ccRCC is relatively rare, so ultrasound doctors lack experience with the disease, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis. There is little discussion about its ultrasonographic
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's thyroiditis. Pure cysts are always benign and appear anechoic. Hypoechogenicity, instead, is seldom reported in thyroid malignancies. Hypoechogenicity is thought to represent a cellular microfollicular histologic milieu, whereas the ultrasound appearance of
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Introduction 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 to the finding of many thyroid nodules, both palpable
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tests and a neck ultrasound, if necessary. Thyroid function tests, such as TSH measurement, are used to assess thyroid function, while ultrasound can help to determine the risk of malignancy of any detected lesions. This diagnostic process is highly