Background The rising demand for 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
with computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) has led to an increase of thyroid …

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods for evaluating thyroid nodules on ultrasound have been
widely described in the literature, with reported performance of AI tools matching or in some …

Background The Italian Consensus for the Classification and Reporting of Thyroid Cytology
(ICCRTC) includes six diagnostic categories (TIR 1/1C, TIR 2, TIR 3A, TIR 3B, TIR 4, and TIR …

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, with increasing incidence over
the past few decades. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy is the gold standard for …

Purpose As~ 25% of cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules harbour malignancy,
diagnostic lobectomy is still performed in many cases. 18FDG PET/CT rules out malignancy …

Objectives/Hypothesis Sonographic risk criteria may assist in further prognostication of
indeterminate thyroid nodules (ITNs). Our aim was to determine whether sonographic …

Background: Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is the preferred method to
evaluate the dignity of thyroid nodules. Nevertheless, the often-reported high nondiagnostic …

Conventional cytology-based diagnosis for thyroid cancer is limited with more than 30–45%
of nodules categorized as indeterminate, necessitating surgery for confirming or refuting the …

Background Bethesda category III and IV thyroid nodules fall in the indeterminate risk of
malignancy category. These nodules have been a relatively elusive entity to manage as …

Simple Summary Around 25% of patients who undergo an ultrasound-guided thyroid biopsy
end up with an indeterminate result based on cytology. This has propelled the use of other …