The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma

The 2015 guidelines from the American Thyroid Association for adults with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid may be particularly important in minimising potential harm from overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid tumours by providing more restrictive indications for biopsy of thyroid nodu...

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Autor principal: Leite, Valeriano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Touch Medical Media 2018
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Thyroid
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29922345
http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/EE.2018.14.1.13
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spelling pubmed-59545882018-06-19 The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma Leite, Valeriano Eur Endocrinol Thyroid The 2015 guidelines from the American Thyroid Association for adults with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid may be particularly important in minimising potential harm from overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid tumours by providing more restrictive indications for biopsy of thyroid nodules, by considering active surveillance programs, as an alternative to surgery, for papillary microcarcinomas, and by recommending more conservative surgical approaches and a more judicious use of radioiodine. Touch Medical Media 2018-04 2018-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5954588/ /pubmed/29922345 http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/EE.2018.14.1.13 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, adaptation and reproduction provided the original author(s) and source are given appropriate credit. © The Author(s) 2018 Authorship: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship of this manuscript, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given final approval to the version to be published. Review Process: This article is a short opinion piece and has not been submitted to external peer reviewers but was reviewed for accuracy by the editorial board before publication.
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The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
title The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
title_full The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
title_fullStr The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
title_short The Importance of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Adults with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Minimising Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
title_sort importance of the 2015 american thyroid association guidelines for adults with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer in minimising overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid carcinoma
topic Thyroid
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29922345
http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/EE.2018.14.1.13
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