Ultrasound Real-Time Tissue Elastography Improves the Diagnostic Performance of the ACR Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System in Differentiating Malignant from Benign Thyroid Nodules: A Summary of 1525 Thyroid Nodules

<div>Images in a 65-year-old woman who underwent routine check-up. A 10 mm left thyroid nodule with hypoechogenicity, solid, irregular margin, taller-than-wide, and no calcification was found by grayscale US and assessed as a malignant nodule. A score of 4 was assigned at elastography. The TI-RADS category was assigned as 5. This thyroid nodule was diagnosed as papillary thyroid carcinoma at surgery.</div>

International Journal of Endocrinology

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Figure 5: Ultrasound Real-Time Tissue Elastography Improves the Diagnostic Performance of the ACR Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System in Differentiating Malignant from Benign Thyroid Nodules: A Summary of 1525 Thyroid Nodules 

Figure 5 | Ultrasound Real-Time Tissue Elastography Improves the Diagnostic Performance of the ACR Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System in Differentiating Malignant from Benign Thyroid Nodules: A Summary of 1525 Thyroid Nodules 