Inclusion criteria included normal thyroid function ... Patients with suspicious or malignant cytology underwent surgery; those with benign nodules received follow-up ultrasound after 6 months.

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.

Noah S. Kalman, MD, MBA, discusses how oncologists can determine the best course of action for the treatment and management of a patient with thyroid cancer.

A swelling in the thyroid can be a simple cyst or nodule or a tumor or cancer in ... from the swelling (FNAC – fine needle aspiration cytology) which is done to know the type of cells (cancerous ...

Implicitly understood is that most nodules are not malignant. As the absolute number of detected thyroid nodules increases, the most beneficial analysis would be one that attempted to identify a ...