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Management of Thyroid Nodules Detected at US: Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference Statement¹

¹ From the Depts of Radiology (M.C.F.) and Pathology (E.S.C.) and Thyroid Unit, Div of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Dept of Medicine (P.R.L.), Brigham and Women's Hosp, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115; Depts of Radiology (J.W.C., C.C.R.) and Pathology (J.R.G.) and Division of Endocrinology (I.D.H.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; Dept of Surgery, Univ of California at San Francisco (O.H.C.); Dept of Radiology (B.G.C., J.E.L.) and Div of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (S.J.M.), Hosp of the Univ of Pennsylvania, Pa; Dept of Radiology, Rhode Island Hosp, Brown Univ Medical School, Providence (J.J.C.); Depts of Surgery (D.B.E.) and Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders (S.I.S.), Univ of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr, Houston; Dept of Radiology, Duke Univ Medical School, Durham, NC (B.S.H.); Dept of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, Pa (C.M.I.); Dept of Radiology, Stanford Univ, Palo Alto, Calif (R.B.J.); Mallinckrodt Inst of Radiology, Washington Univ School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo (W.D.M.); and Dept of Radiology, Univ of Alabama, Birmingham (F.N.T.). Received Feb 8, 2005; revision requested Mar 29; revision received Apr 26; accepted May 11. Address correspondence to M.C.F. (e-mail: mfrates{at}partners.org).

The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound convened a panel of specialists from a variety of medical disciplines to come to a consensus on the management of thyroid nodules identified with thyroid ultrasonography (US), with particular focus on which nodules should be subjected to US-guided fine needle aspiration and which thyroid nodules need not be subjected to fine-needle aspiration. The panel met in Washington, DC, October 26–27, 2004, and created this consensus statement. The recommendations in this consensus statement, which are based on analysis of the current literature and common practice strategies, are thought to represent a reasonable approach to thyroid nodular disease.

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