Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An interdisciplinary consensus statement released by the Thyroid, Head and Neck Cancer Foundation aims to ...

A Loyola Medicine study has found that new ultrasound guidelines can reliably identify pediatric patients who should be biopsied for thyroid cancer. The study by radiologist Jennifer Lim-Dunham, MD, ...

Some physicians are ordering thyroid tests for unsupported reasons While most thyroid ultrasound orders are warranted, researchers say guidelines could be clearer to help reduce overdiagnosis of ...

This article reviews agreement, disagreement and need for future research of the thyroid nodule guidelines published by the British Thyroid Association, National Cancer Institute, American Thyroid ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Nodules -- a type of abnormality detected by ultrasound -- are extremely common in the thyroid gland. Up to two-thirds of adults have nodules in this gland, and most are benign or ...

A minority are aggressive cancer that requires treatment, leaving physicians and patients with a problem — which nodules need to be biopsied for malignancy tests, which nodules show a small risk and ...

A woman presented with hyperthyroidism. Her TSH was <0.01. Radioactive iodine uptake and scan revealed an area of increased uptake on the right with suppression of the surrounding thyroid tissue ...

The vast majority of asymptomatic, benign thyroid nodules show no significant growth over a 5-year follow-up, suggesting that existing guidelines on follow-up of such tumors can safely be relaxed, ...

Thyroid nodules are small lumps that form within the thyroid gland and are quite common in the general population, with a prevalence as high as 67%. The great majority of thyroid nodules are not ...