2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.
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...Epidemiologic studies have shown the prevalence of palpable thyroid nodules to be approximately 5% in women and 1% in men living in iodine-sufficient parts of the world (1;2)....
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...For patients with few (1-3) brain metastases, SBRT is as effective as surgery and can be repeated in case of appearance of new brain lesions....
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...ATA Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer guidelines were published in 2006 (24) and revised in 2009 (25)....
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...The 2009 ATA risk stratification system was somewhat different than staging systems proposed by a European Consensus conference (540) and the Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS) (541) which classifies patients as either being at very low risk (unifocal, intrathyroidal T1aN0M0), low risk (T1b N0M0, T2N0M0 or multifocal T1N0M0) or high risk (any T3 or T4, any N1, or any M1)....
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...As reported in The Bethesda System by Cibas and Ali (1076)....
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...The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Diagnostic Categories and Risk of Malignancya Diagnostic category Estimated/predicted risk of malignancy by the Bethesda system, %a Actual risk of malignancy in nodules surgically excised, % median (range)b Nondiagnostic or unsatisfactory 1–4 20 (9–32) Benign 0–3 2.5 (1–10) Atypia of undetermined significance or follicular lesion of undetermined significance 5–15 14 (6–48) Follicular neoplasm or suspicious for a follicular neoplasm 15–30 25 (14–34) Suspicious for malignancy 60–75 70 (53–97) Malignant 97–99 99 (94–100) aAs reported in The Bethesda System by Cibas and Ali (1076). bBased on the meta-analysis of eight studies reported by Bongiovanni et al. (103)....
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...In general, stage for stage, the prognoses of PTC and follicular cancer are similar (266,269)....
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...However, oncocytic follicular carcinoma tumors have some differences in biological behavior as compared to the conventional type follicular carcinoma, such as the ability to metastasize to lymph nodes and a possibly higher rate of recurrence and tumor-related mortality (269,442,443)....
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