Do not routinely request / perform thyroid ultrasound in subjects without signs and / or symptoms of thyroid disease and not belonging to risk groups for thyroid cancer and limit the indication and execution of fine needle aspirations on low-risk nodules.

Do not routinely request / perform thyroid ultrasound in subjects without signs and / or symptoms of thyroid disease and not belonging to risk groups for thyroid cancer and limit the indication and execution of fine needle aspirations on low-risk nodules.

by | Oct 17, 2018

Thyroid ultrasound is a fundamental test in the diagnosis of thyroid pathologies; its use, however, must take place in an appropriate clinical setting. Small thyroid nodules are very common in the general population and, in most cases, benign. Furthermore, in the last...