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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

In the training data set of thyroid nodules, the classifier achieved a sensitivity of 94%, a specificity of 52% and a negative predictive value of 96% when determining benign vs. malignant nodules.

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 ...

Cysts are usually benign, but they occasionally contain ... Although the chances that a nodule is malignant are small, you’re at higher risk if you have a family history of thyroid or other ...

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 ...