Malignant thyroid nodules are more likely to grow at least 2 mm per year and increase in volume compared with benign thyroid nodules, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical ...

Approximately 15 to 30% of thyroid nodules evaluated by means of fine-needle aspiration are not clearly benign or malignant. Patients with cytologically indeterminate nodules are often referred ...

When evaluation has failed to achieve a definitive characterization of the nodule as either benign or malignant, management options include either continued close monitoring or a thyroidectomy.

"This is a very interesting concept for determination of whether a thyroid nodule is benign or malignant," said Marc Vanderleeden, MD, an endocrinologist with the Endocrine Association of Western ...

several tests may be ordered to discover whether the nodule is benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) and to determine the best course of action: A thyroid ultrasound involves using sound ...

The following is a summary of “Additive value of real-time elastography to thyroid ultrasound in detecting papillary carcinoma in nodules over 20 mm in diameter,” published in the April 2025 issue of ...

Cytological diagnosis was benign nodule in 42 cases, predominantly follicular lesion in 50 cases, and suspicious or malignant lesion in 16 cases. The final pathology revealed a benign nodule in 98 ...

Telling the difference between benign and cancerous thyroid nodules before surgery is notoriously challenging, but a new study finds that a combination of artificial intelligence and data analysis ...