ea0041ep1094 | Thyroid cancer | ECE2016
Riganti Fabrizio
, Bonelli Nadia
, Rossetto Ruth
, Pacchioni Donatella
, Viberti Laura
, Maccario Mauro
, Ghigo Ezio
, Garberoglio Roberto
Introduction: Thyroid nodules are discovered by ultrasound (US) in a large percentage of population. In most cases they are benign and asymptomatic. When to perform or not a fine-needle-aspiration (FNA) is still matter of debate. Aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a easy-to-use US classification, based on three US classes.Methods: We prospectively evaluated US features of 1118 thyroid nodules, allocating each nodule in one of three class...