Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To develop a cost-effective instrument to evaluate the preoperative malignancy risk of thyroid nodules (TNs).Patients&Methods: A meta-analysis of the clinical (C) and ultrasonographic (U) features associated with an increased risk of malignancy was conducted searching in the PubMed database. For each of them we computed the odds ratio and we consequently assigned a score. The resulted C+U score along with the 5-tiered score of fine-needle aspira...