"Thyroid Nodule" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A small circumscribed mass in the THYROID GLAND that can be of neoplastic growth or non-neoplastic abnormality. It lacks a well-defined capsule or glandular architecture. Thyroid nodules are often benign but can be malignant. The growth of nodules can lead to a multinodular goiter (GOITER, NODULAR).
| Descriptor ID |
D016606
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.588.322.894.800 C04.588.443.915.800 C19.344.894.800 C19.874.788.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Thyroid Nodule- Thyroid Nodule
- Nodule, Thyroid
- Nodules, Thyroid
- Thyroid Nodules
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2018 | 12 | 3 | 15 |
| 2019 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thyroid Nodule" by people in Profiles.
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Changes in thyroid fine needle aspiration practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cytopathology. 2021 11; 32(6):732-737.
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Thyroid fine-needle aspiration trends before, during, and after the lockdown: what we have learned so far from the COVID-19 pandemic. Endocrine. 2021 01; 71(1):20-25.
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ENDOCRINOLOGY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: Management of thyroid nodules and cancer. Eur J Endocrinol. 2020 Jul; 183(1):G41-G48.
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Thyroid cytology in the times of coronavirus. Diagn Cytopathol. 2021 Apr; 49(4):467-468.
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Thyroid FNA in the time of coronavirus: The interventional cytopathologist point of view. Cancer Cytopathol. 2020 08; 128(8):589.
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DNA Methylation-Based Method to Differentiate Malignant from Benign Thyroid Lesions. Thyroid. 2019 09; 29(9):1244-1254.
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Total thyroidectomy vs completion thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology/follicular proliferation: a single-centre experience. BMC Surg. 2019 Jul 10; 19(1):87.
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Risk factor analysis for predicting cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma: a study of 966 patients. BMC Cancer. 2019 Jun 25; 19(1):622.
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Prospective Evaluation of Semiquantitative Strain Ratio and Quantitative 2D Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) in Association with TIRADS Classification for Thyroid Nodule Characterization. Ultraschall Med. 2019 Aug; 40(4):495-503.
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A multicentre validation study for the EU-TIRADS using histological diagnosis as a gold standard. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2019 08; 91(2):340-347.