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Ma X, Yu J, Huang Y, Cui Y, Cui K. A comprehensive comparative assessment of eight risk stratification systems for thyroid nodules in the elderly population. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1265973. [PMID: 38033487 PMCID: PMC10684914 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1265973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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Objective This study aims to investigate the diagnostic value of eight risk stratification systems (RSSs) for thyroid nodules in the elderly and explore the reasons in comparison with a younger group. Methods Cases of thyroid nodules that underwent ultrasound examination with thyroidectomy or fine-needle aspiration (FNA) at our hospital between August 2013 and March 2023 were collected. The patients were categorized into two groups: an elderly group (aged ≥60) and a younger group (aged <60). Eight RSSs were applied to evaluate these nodules respectively. Results The malignant rate in the elderly group was significantly lower than that in the younger group (28.2% vs. 49.6%, P=0.000). There were statistically significant differences in nodule diameter, multiplicity, composition, echogenicity, orientation, margin, and echogenic foci between the elderly and younger groups (P<0.05). Among the eight RSSs evaluated in elderly adults, the artificial intelligence-based Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (AI TIRADS) demonstrated the highest overall diagnostic efficacy, but with relatively high unnecessary FNA rate (UFR) and missed cancer rate (MCR) of 55.0% and 51.3%, respectively. By modifying the size thresholds, the new AI TI-RADS achieved the lowest UFR and MCR while maintaining nearly the lowest FNA rate (FNAR) among all the RSSs (P=0.172, 0.162, compared to the ACR and original AI, respectively, but P<0.05 compared to the other six RSSs). Conclusion Among the eight RSS systems, AI demonstrated higher diagnostic efficacy in the elderly population. However, the size thresholds for FNA needed to be adjusted.
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- Department of Ultrasound, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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Mustafa DH, Ahmed BS, Haweizy RM, Dewana AM. Evaluation of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. BMC Surg 2022; 22:364. [PMID: 36271386 PMCID: PMC9587643 DOI: 10.1186/s12893-022-01810-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is a rare and lethal disease that accounts for 1–2% of thyroid malignancies. It is an aggressive locoregional disease with a high rate of distant metastasis, a poor prognosis, and a mean survival rate of 3–6 months after diagnosis. This retrospective study aimed to analyse the clinical and pathological features of ATC to assess treatment procedures and its outcome. Methods We analysed data from 22 patients diagnosed with ATC from 2018 to 2021, using the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test to determine overall survival. Results Patients’ median age was 64.3 ± 17.1 years. Females were more affected (male/female ratio: 1:1.7); 14 cases occurred in females (63.6.4%), and eight in males (36.4%). The most common manifestations were neck enlargement (81.8%) and dyspnoea (72.27%), and the tumour size was > 4 cm in 17 (77.3%) patients. The percentage of cases that presented in clinical-stage IVA was 36.4%, with 31.8% presenting in clinical-stage IVB and 31.8% presenting in clinical-stage VIB. Among 22 cases, 14 (63.6%) were operable, and 8 (36.4) were inoperable (p = 0.015). Multimodal therapies were associated with better survival (surgery plus radiotherapy without systemic treatment, P = 0.063). The median overall survival was three months (IC 95%, 0.078–5.922). One-year and two-year survival rates were 9% and 4.5%, respectively. Conclusion ATC is a rapidly growing cancer that, fortunately, is rare. Early diagnosis and multimodality treatment may provide a better quality of life and survival time for this group of patients. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12893-022-01810-w.
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- Dilshad Hamad Mustafa
- Department of Faciomaxillary Surgery, College of Dentistry, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq.
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq
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Wu J, Zhan T, Sun H, Wang F. The Application Value of SMI Technology and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Differential Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Thyroid Nodules. CONTRAST MEDIA & MOLECULAR IMAGING 2022; 2022:6157026. [PMID: 36082066 PMCID: PMC9436616 DOI: 10.1155/2022/6157026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Thyroid disease has always been a common and frequent disease in clinical medicine, and its disease detection rate has been increasing year by year. Thyroid diseases are mainly divided into two categories: thyroid diseases treated by medical treatment and thyroid diseases treated by surgery. Thyroid cancer has also become one of the most common malignant secretory tumor diseases today. Ultrasound examination is a commonly used method for diagnosing thyroid diseases. During the diagnosis process, doctors need to observe the characteristics of ultrasound images and combine professional knowledge and clinical experience to give the patient's disease status. With the improvement of people's living standards and health awareness, thyroid disease has become an important issue that plagues the health of Chinese residents. Therefore, people and medical workers are paying more attention to thyroid disease. In recent years, various ultrasound technologies have been applied in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid nodules and have played an important role in the diagnosis. This article aims to study the application value of SMI technology (ultra-microvascular imaging technology) and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the differential diagnosis of thyroid benign and malignant nodules. It conducts diagnostic experiments and analysis on some cases of benign and malignant thyroid nodules through the use of SMI diagnostic methods and contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination methods. And the ROC curve was used to calculate the sensitivity of SMI technology and ultrasound for the identification and diagnosis of thyroid benign and malignant nodules, and the results were 0.83 and 0.81, respectively. It is concluded that SMI technology and contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination have good diagnostic efficiency and application value for the identification and diagnosis of thyroid benign and malignant nodules.
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- Jiahuan Wu
- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jiamusi University, Jiamusi 154000, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, 970 Hospital of Yantai Joint Logistics Support Force, Yantai 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jiamusi University, Jiamusi 154000, Heilongjiang, China
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- Physical Diagnosis Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jiamusi University, Jiamusi 154000, Heilongjiang, China
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Di Fermo F, Sforza N, Rosmarin M, Morosan Allo Y, Parisi C, Santamaria J, Pacenza N, Zuk C, Faingold C, Ferraro F, Meroño T, Brenta G. Comparison of different systems of ultrasound (US) risk stratification for malignancy in elderly patients with thyroid nodules. Real world experience. Endocrine 2020; 69:331-338. [PMID: 32291736 DOI: 10.1007/s12020-020-02295-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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PURPOSE To comparatively assess the performance of three sonographic classification systems, American Thyroid Association (ATA), the American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (ACR TI-RADS), and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)/American College of Endocrinology (ACE)/Associazione Medici Endocrinologi (AME) in identifying malignant nodules in an elderly population. METHODS Cross-sectional study of patients referred for fine needle aspiration biopsy in an academic center for the elderly. One nodule/patient was considered. Nodules classified Bethesda V/VI were considered malignant. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves were established and compared to evaluate diagnostic performance. Malignancy among biopsies below the size cutoff for each ultrasound classification was also compared. RESULTS One thousand, eight hundred sixty-seven patients (92% females); median (Q1-Q3), age 71 (67-76) years, were studied showing 82.8% benign (Bethesda II) and 2.6% malignant cytology. The three classifications correctly identified malignancy (P < 0.01). Nonetheless, in the ATA and AACE/ACE/AME 16 and 2 malignant nodules, respectively, were unclassifiable. Including unclassified malignant nodules (n = 1234, malignant = 50), comparison of the ROC curves showed lower performance of ATA [area under the curve (AUC) = ATA (0.49) vs. ACR TI-RADS (0.62), p = 0.008 and ATA vs. AACE/ACE/AME (0.59), p = 0.022]. Proportion of below size cutoff biopsies for ATA, ACR TI-RADS, and AACE/ACE/AME was different [16, 42, and 29% (all p < 0.001)], but no differences in malignancy rate were observed in these nodules. CONCLUSION The present study is the first to validate in elderly patients these classifications showing that AACE/ACE/AME and ACR TI-RADS can predict thyroid malignancy more accurately than the ATA when unclassifiable malignant nodules are considered. Moreover, in this aged segment of the population, the use of ACR TI-RADS avoided more invasive procedures.
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- Fernando Di Fermo
- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Radiology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Clinical Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Clinical Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Endocrinology Department, Cesar Milstein Hospital, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Maturo A, Tromba L, De Anna L, Carbotta G, Livadoti G, Donello C, Falbo F, Galiffa G, Esposito A, Biancucci A, Carbotta S. Incidental thyroid carcinomas. A retrospective study. G Chir 2019; 38:94-101. [PMID: 28691675 DOI: 10.11138/gchir/2017.38.2.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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AIM The aim of the present study is to report our series of incidental thyroid carcinomas in the last 15 years and their follow-up, discussing therapeutics indications and surgical choices. PATIENTS AND METHODS We have considered 1793 patients operated on Surgical Sciences Department of "Sapienza" University of Rome from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015. The study was conducted on 83 totally thyroidectomized patients with a real incidental thyroid carcinoma, by clinical, laboratory and instrumental controls. Whole-body scan was the most important test in postoperative evaluation. RESULTS In our series, the incidence of incidental carcinomas was 4.62%. Compared to the total number of cancer patients, the percentage is 21,9%. In 15.66% of cases there was multifocality and in 7.23% also bilaterality. Regarding the histological type, in all cases they were papillary carcinoma. The size of the neoplastic lesions ranged from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 10 mm. Whole-body scan revealed lymph node metastasis in 57.69% of patients. DISCUSSION Comparing these data with our previous studies we have seen a significant increase in incidence of incidental thyroid carcinomas over the years. Our therapeutical choice is total thyroidectomy and complection thyroidectomy after lobectomy, because of a relevant percentage of multifocality and/or bilaterality of these tumors. Many Authors on the contrary prefer a more conservative approach invoking the good prognosis of these tumors. The 57.69% of lymph node metastasis at postoperative whole-body scan comfort us in our setting. CONCLUSION Incidental thyroid carcinomas are not uncommon. We consider only tumors until 1 cm in diameter. Multifocality and bilaterality are often present such as occult lymph node metastasis. Our therapeutical choice is total thyroidectomy in order to conduct a proper follow-up.
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Mouse Thyroid Gland Changes in Aging: Implication of Galectin-3 and Sphingomyelinase. Mediators Inflamm 2018; 2017:8102170. [PMID: 29375200 PMCID: PMC5742507 DOI: 10.1155/2017/8102170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction and its impact on cognition in older people has been demonstrated, but many points remain unclarified. In order to study the effect of aging on the thyroid gland, we compared the thyroid gland of very old mice with that of younger ones. We have first investigated the changes of thyroid microstructure and the possibility that molecules involved in thyroid function might be associated with structural changes. Results from this study indicate changes in the height of the thyrocytes and in the amplitude of interfollicular spaces, anomalous expression/localization of thyrotropin, thyrotropin receptor, and thyroglobulin aging. Thyrotropin and thyrotropin receptor are upregulated and are distributed inside the colloid while thyroglobulin fills the interfollicular spaces. In an approach aimed at defining the behavior of molecules that change in different physiopathological conditions of thyroid, such as galectin-3 and sphingomyelinase, we then wondered what was their behavior in the thyroid gland in aging. Importantly, in comparison with the thyroid of young animals, we have found a higher expression of galectin-3 and a delocalization of neutral sphingomyelinase in the thyroid of old animals. A possible relationship between galectin-3, neutral sphingomyelinase, and aging has been discussed.
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Diagnostics of Thyroid Malignancy and Indications for Surgery in the Elderly and Younger Counterparts: Comparison of 3,749 Patients. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 2017:1012451. [PMID: 29124061 PMCID: PMC5662825 DOI: 10.1155/2017/1012451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Background It seems valuable for clinicians to know if diagnostics of thyroid malignancy (TM) and indications for surgery in the elderly patients differ from these in younger counterparts. Materials and Methods Retrospective analysis of the medical records of 3,749 patients surgically treated for thyroid tumor. Data of patients with histopathology confirmed TM (n = 309) were studied. Results The rate of cytological prediction to malignancy was more than three times higher in elderly women. Compression was a main reason for surgery in the elderly (p < 0.0001). The final diagnosis of malignancy was significantly higher in older women (p = 0.002). Clinical suspicion of malignancy was positively correlated with histopathological diagnosis in total group of women (r = 0.543, p < 0.001) and total group of men (r = 0.560, p < 0.001). The subgroup of the eldest TM patients included a significantly higher number of subjects with advanced cancer and primary tumor progression (p < 0.0001). Distant metastases were significantly more presented among the elderly patients (p = 0.032). Conclusions The rate of cytological prediction to malignancy in elderly women is high. Tracheal compression is a common surgical indication in the elderly patients. The final diagnoses of malignancy predominate in elderly women. The oldest TM patients present a higher number of advanced thyroid tumors and distant metastases.
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