In Patients With Low Cancer Risk, Thyroid Ultrasound Imaging may be Useful to Reduce Biopsies

To identify patients who have a low risk of cancer, thyroid ultrasound imaging could be used, for whom biopsy could be postponed. This is according to a study by Rebecca Smith-Bindman, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues. The retrospective case-control study of 8,806 patients who underwent 11,618 thyroid ultrasound imaging examinations from January 2000 through March 2005 included 105 patients diagnosed as having thyroid ...

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