No significant long-term size change in benign thyroid nodules
1. The majority of benign thyroid nodules did not significantly increase in size during a 5-year follow-up period. 2. While ...
Tag: thyroid cancer
2 Minute Medicine Rewind February 9 – February 15, 2015
In this section, we highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the past week. HIV-Positive-to-HIV-Positive ...
Increased risk of thyroid nodules with bomb radiation exposure in childhood
1. In a cohort of patients who were younger than 10 years of age at the time of radiation exposure ...
Patient Basics: Thyroid Cancer
Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? Thyroid cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the thyroid gland. ...
Ultrasound useful for risk stratification after nondiagnostic thyroid biopsy
1. Among patients with a nondiagnostic fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules, the use of an ultrasound-based evaluation ...
Three ultrasonographic findings portend increased risk of malignancy in thyroid nodules
Image: PD 1. Three ultrasound characteristics of thyroid nodules were indicative of increased risk of cancer including: microcalcifications, size greater ...
No long-term follow-up for benign thyroid nodules
Image: PD 1. Ultrasound (US) follow-up for longer than three years did not yield increased cancer detection after a benign ...
BRAF V600E mutations linked with increased mortality in thyroid cancer
Image: PD 1. BRAF V600E mutations in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is associated with an increase in mortality. 2. ...
