Background: Widespread use of ultrasound to assess thyroid disease has ... were carcinomas (50 papillary, 15 follicular, and 2 medullary) and 41 were adenomas. Extracapsular growth was present ...
Objective: Conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for cystic thyroid nodules ... diagnosis was benign nodule in 42 cases, predominantly follicular lesion in 50 cases, and suspicious ...
Many patients with papillary and follicular thyroid cancer do not show symptoms. Patients typically seek medical attention when they could see or feel a mass or lump (nodule) on the neck. Masses that ...
Poorly differentiated and well-differentiated thyroid cancers can be present at the same time. Hurthle cell thyroid cancer (also called Hurtle cell carcinoma) is a rare sub-type of follicular thyroid ...
Prevalence of malignancy was relatively low among thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology and negative molecular testing.