Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Ultrasound systems for risk stratification of thyroid nodules prompt inappropriate biopsy in autonomously functioning th...

Published in Clinical endocrinology

Ultrasound (US) risk stratification systems (RSSs) have been developed to reduce the number of unnecessary fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies in patients with thyroid nodules. Autonomously functioning thyroid nodules (AFTN) account for 5%-10% of palpable lesions and are very rarely malignant. The present study was undertaken to investigate how R...