Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid lesions with indeterminate cytology represent about 15% of all thyroid biopsies with the risk of malignancy 15–30%. So the identification of low-risk patients in this group is very important.Few studies evaluated thyroid Tc-99m MIBI [MIBI] scan as a tool for work-up of indeterminate cytology thyroid lesions. The negative predictive value of this test in excluding malignancy appears to be high (95%). But it is not used routinely...