Vincenzo Toscano

TL;DR: The aim of the study was to correlate the sonographic and color-Doppler findings with the results of US-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy and of pathologic staging of resected carcinomas to establish the relative importance of US features as risk factors of malignancy and a cost-effective management of nonpalpable thyroid nodules.

TL;DR: Surgery is recommended for masses with suspicious radiological aspects and masses causing overt catecholamine or steroid excess and adrenalectomy may be considered when an adequate medical therapy does not reach the treatment goals of associated diseases potentially linked to hypercortisolism.

TL;DR: The findings show that if the option of surgery was based theoretically on galectin-3 expression alone, only 134 thyroid operations would have been done in 465 patients; therefore a large proportion of unnecessary thyroid surgical procedures could be avoided, although a number of galectIn-3-negative cancers could be potentially missed.

TL;DR: LTA may be a therapeutic tool for highly selected problems in the treatment of thyroid lesions in adults at poor surgical risk with cold nodules, autonomously hyperfunctioning thyroid nodules or anaplastic carcinoma.

TL;DR: By adding RTE evaluation, the sensitivity for malignancy of US findings is markedly increased and the selection of nodules that do not need cytology is made more reliable.