… be performed when any thyroid nodule is suspected. Fine-… or malignant disease and is
generally applied to nodules larger … rates of benign and malignant thyroid nodules, cancerous …

… thyroid nodule is the manifestation of a wide range of thyroid diseases, some benign and
others malignant… nodular thyroid disease rate of nearly 67 % in elderly women [2]. Most of these …

… studies [2, 4, 7–13] that include 682 patients with surgically excised malignant thyroid nodules.
… The malignancy rate may be as high as 50% in nodules that initially yield an inadequate …

… According to the literature, the malignancy rate in thyroid nodules that are 4 cm or larger,
with indeterminate cytology, varies from 10 to 30% (22,40,42,49,50). Rosário et al. (45) found …

… other malignancies, the nature of nonpalpable thyroid nodules … Thyroid cancer, however,
is an uncommon malignancy. The … to assess rates of malignancy in nonpalpable nodules was …

… As can be observed in this analysis, the difference in rate of incidental thyroid uptake detected
by PET and PET with concurrent CT is not statistically significant. It can be assumed that …

… thyroid nodules may be unacceptably high, but that risk remains undefined. Based on these
reports, we considered the presence of a thyroid nodule … FNAB cytology for malignancy were …

… the malignancy and nondiagnostic rates using fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) results
in thyroid nodules … , and 2,756 patients of subcentimeter thyroid nodules with one or more …

… thyroid nodule FNA include a large number of aspirates containing insufficient cytologic
material and a variable malignancy … repeat aspiration on thyroid nodules with previously benign …

… If most mPTCs behave clinically like benign lesions, and the microcarcinomas are excluded
from the current study, then the true malignancy rates for cytology benign nodules would be …