Role of clinicopathologic and sonographic characteristics for the management of patients with cytological diagnosis of thyroid follicular neoplasm.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thyroid cancer is one of the most common endocrine tumors and preoperative diagnosis of thyroid follicular neoplasm (FN) is challenging. Commonly used examination methods have difficulty in distinguishing thyroid cancer from other follicular lesions. At the same time, with the recently released World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, the risk classification of FNs of the thyroid is a new enlightenment for clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, we conducted this study to help identify malignant tumors, determine the appropriate extent of surgery, and reduce unnecessary surgical resection.

Methods

We performed this retrospective cohort study between January 2015 and December 2023. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 192 patients wer

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11635570 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature