Carlo Chiesa

TL;DR: Q-elastography showed excellent diagnostic performance for the prediction of thyroid malignancy and is a valid and reproducible diagnostic method as well as a promising tool for identifying suspicious solid thyroid nodules needing cytological assessment and surgery.

TL;DR: CNB can detect a large proportion of the benign thyroid nodules that are classified as indeterminate by FNA, and patients can avoid diagnostic thyroidectomy and hospitals can reduce their surgical costs by one-third.

TL;DR: There is no known common cause of these 2 different tumor types; it may be a stochastic exception, but several other possibilities such as a common precursor cell or a common tumorigenic stimulus offer interesting perspectives for speculation.

TL;DR: The experience in thyroid surgery in geriatric patients within the environment of a "week surgery unit", conceived to offer a highly specialized setting for thyroid patients needing short stay after surgery, showed that the surgical outcomes were comparable to the ones from third surgery in young patients.

TL;DR: A case of metastatic signet ring cell carcinoma to the thyroid is reported, studied with quantitative elastography and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging.