Cost-effective initial assessment strategies for thyroid nodules in iodine-adequate areas

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• 作者：Haidong Cai ; Yu Qiao ; Xiao Huang ; Ming Sun ; Qiong Luo…
• 关键词：Thyroid nodule ; Initial assessment ; Thyrotropin ; Color flow Doppler sonography
• 刊名：Annals of Nuclear Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：31
• 期：1
• 页码：12-18
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• 刊物主题：Nuclear Medicine; Imaging / Radiology;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1864-6433
• 卷排序：31

文摘

ObjectiveIn the initial assessment of thyroid nodules, thyrotropin (TSH) has very low sensitivity for assessing functional thyroid nodules (FTNs). The false negativity in FTNs and the false positivity in non-FTNs misinterpreted by TSH will raise unnecessary assessment costs. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the values of the TSH and color flow Doppler sonography (CFDS) combined strategies in reducing the unnecessary assessment costs.