Open AccessNew American Thyroid Association Sonographic Patterns for Thyroid Nodules Perform Well in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Institutional Experience, Systematic Review, and Meta-Analysis
Author(s) -
Pablo Valderrábano,
Donald Klippenstein,
John B. Tourtelot,
Zhenjun Ma,
Zachary Thompson,
Howard Lilienfeld,
Bryan McIver
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
thyroid
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.918
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1557-9077
pISSN - 1050-7256
DOI - 10.1089/thy.2016.0196
Subject(s) - medicine , echogenicity , thyroid carcinoma , thyroid nodules , thyroid , radiology , nodule (geology) , thyroid cancer , medullary cavity , ultrasound , biopsy , pathology , paleontology , biology
The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) thyroid nodule guidelines recommend selecting nodules for biopsy based on a sonographic pattern classification. These patterns were developed based on features of differentiated thyroid cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the performance and the inter-observer agreement of this classification system in medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC).