ALTHOUGH goiters are usually easily palpable and laboratory tests have become more helpful, the clinical diagnosis of thyroid disease is still often unreliable, and conclusive evidence of the nature ...

Use of the capillary action technique (nonaspiration) in fine-needle biopsy of routine thyroid nodules significantly reduces rates of nondiagnostic cytopathology compared with aspiration, and the use ...

A new and simple risk-stratification system based on thyroid-nodule features seen on ultrasound can determine whether a nodule needs a fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy to detect potential cancer or ...

A new case report in the Annals of Hematology describes a woman whose rare primary thyroid diffuse large B-cell lymphoma ...

Nodules—a type of abnormality detected by ultrasound—are extremely common in the thyroid gland. Up to two-thirds of adults have nodules in this gland, and most are benign or only cause a slow-growing ...

Thyroid nodules are extraordinarily common. Depending on the population screened and the sensitivity of the imaging used, ...

Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA)-cytology is widely used for the preoperative characterisation of thyroid nodules but this task is difficult for follicular lesions, which often remain ...

As part of our coverage of the 2016 American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting we discuss active surveillance vs immediate lobectomy or thyroidectomy in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. Dr. Tuttle: ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American College of Radiology (ACR) Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS), published in 2017, ...

The prevalence of benign thyroid nodules is high and there are certain ultrasound features, suggesting malignancy, that can help radiologists determine whether or not a biopsy is needed, according to ...

Endometrial biopsy should be performed for patients with abnormal uterine bleeding who are 45 years or older and in younger patients with a significant history of unopposed estrogen exposure, ...