Thyroid

Elevated Serum Growth Differentiation Factor 15 Levels in Hyperthyroid Patients.

Recent studies have shown that growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), a member of the transformi...

Automatic thyroid nodule recognition and diagnosis in ultrasound imaging with the YOLOv2 neural network.

BACKGROUND: In this study, images of 2450 benign thyroid nodules and 2557 malignant thyroid nodules ...

Diagnosis of thyroid cancer using deep convolutional neural network models applied to sonographic images: a retrospective, multicohort, diagnostic study.

BACKGROUND: The incidence of thyroid cancer is rising steadily because of overdiagnosis and overtrea...

Ultra-Low-Dose Neck CT With Low-Dose Contrast Material for Preoperative Staging of Thyroid Cancer: Image Quality and Diagnostic Performance.

OBJECTIVE: Although CT has been used as a complementary diagnostic method for the preoperative diagn...

Reply to Letter to the Editor regarding "Carbon Dioxide Embolism during Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy: A Case Report".

Letter to the Editor regarding "Carbon dioxide embolism during transoral robotic thyroidectomy: A case report".

Unique Case of a Large Indolent Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Time to Reconsider the Medullary Thyroid Adenoma Entity?

BACKGROUND: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare neuroendocrine cancer originating from paraf...

Calcitonin Screening in Nodular Thyroid Disease: Is There a Definitive Answer?

INTRODUCTION: Calcitonin (Ctn) is a hormone secreted by thyroid "C" cells and is considered an excel...

Repeat Ultrasonography in the First Years after Therapy with Radioiodine Is Not Necessary in Most Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma when Postoperative Ultrasonography Is Negative: A Reduction of Costs and False-Positives.

BACKGROUND: Periodic ultrasonography (US) examination is recommended in many patients with papillary...

Patch-based classification of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images using direction independent features extracted by two-threshold binary decomposition.

Ultrasound imaging of the thyroid gland is considered to be the best diagnostic choice for evaluatin...

The Impact of Esophageal Compression on Goiter Symptoms before and after Thyroid Surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Benign nodular goiter may be associated with swallowing difficulties, but insight into...

[An unusual cause of jaundice].

Hepatic impairment is common during hyperthyroidism. It is most often asymptomatic. Hyperthyroidism ...

Evaluation of Commonly Used Algorithms for Thyroid Ultrasound Images Segmentation and Improvement Using Machine Learning Approaches.

The thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands in the human body, which is involved in several b...

Combined Effect of Low-Level Laser Treatment and Levothyroxine on Wound Healing in Rats With Hypothyroidism.

Hypothyroidism delays wound healing by reducing the synthesis of keratinocytes, fibroblast cells, a...

The usefulness of fine-needle aspirates for detection of recurrent carcinoma in the thyroid bed.

INTRODUCTION: Locoregional recurrence of thyroid carcinoma has a negative impact on patient prognosi...

Robotic Head and Neck Surgery: History, Technical Evolution and the Future.

The first application of robotic technology in surgery was described in 1985 when a robot was used t...

An improved deep learning approach for detection of thyroid papillary cancer in ultrasound images.

Unlike daily routine images, ultrasound images are usually monochrome and low-resolution. In ultraso...

SetSVM: An Approach to Set Classification in Nuclei-Based Cancer Detection.

Due to the importance of nuclear structure in cancer diagnosis, several predictive models have been ...

Optimized multi-level elongated quinary patterns for the assessment of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images.

Ultrasound imaging is one of the most common visualizing tools used by radiologists to identify the ...

Effects of Methadone Maintenance Therapy on Thyroid Function of Adult Men.

One of the major challenges in methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) for drug dependence is the physio...

The Combined Effects of Levothyroxine and Low Level Laser Therapy on Wound Healing in Hypothyroidism Male Rat Model.

Hypothyroidism is caused by inadequate production and storage of thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism i...