Predicting risk of malignancy in patients with indeterminate thyroid nodules

Thyroid cancer is the most prevalent endocrine cancer (1). The prevalence of palpable thyroid nodules in the general adult population is 4% to 7% (2). Ultrasound imaging detects thyroid nodules in 19%-68% of randomly selected individuals (3). The rate of thyroid cancer in nodules found on US is 4% t...

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Main Author: Carnes, Nicholas
Other Authors: Whitney, Elizabeth R.
Language:en_US
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31159