New American Thyroid Association Sonographic Patterns for Thyroid Nodules Perform Well in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Institutional Experience, Systematic Review, and Meta-Analysis | Zendy

Pablo Valderrábano | Zendy; Donald Klippenstein | Zendy; John B. Tourtelot | Zendy; Zhenjun Ma | Zendy; Zachary Thompson | Zendy; Howard Lilienfeld | Zendy; Bryan McIver | Zendy

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New 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).

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