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Comparison of Diagnostic Performance of Five Different Ultrasound TI-RADS Classification Guidelines for Thyroid Nodules.
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- Comparison of diagnostic performance of two ultrasound risk stratification systems for thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis.La Radiologia medica · 2023Pooled it
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- Comparison of K-TIRADS, EU-TIRADS and ACR-TIRADS Guidelines for Malignancy Risk Determination of Thyroid Nodules.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence in interpreting thyroid nodules on ultrasound images: a multicenter retrospective study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Assessment of thyroid nodule risk stratification knowledge and utilization among Polish physicians: a pilot study.Polish journal of radiology · 2024Article
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- Diagnostic performance of ACR-TIRADS, Korean TIRADS, and American Thyroid Association guidelines for risk stratification of thyroid nodules: a prospective study.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Article
- Clinical application of a 5G-based telerobotic ultrasound system for thyroid examination on a rural island: a prospective study.Endocrine · 2022Article
- Clinical diagnostic value of American College of Radiology thyroid imaging report and data system in different kinds of thyroid nodules.BMC endocrine disorders · 2022Article
- Summary of Meta-analyses of Studies Involving TIRADS Classifications (EU-TIRADS, ACR-TIRADS, and K-TIRADS) in Evaluating the Malignant Potential of Focal Lesions of The Thyroid Gland.Journal of ultrasonography · 2022Article
- Integrative metabolomic characterization identifies plasma metabolomic signature in the diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer.Oncogene · 2022Article
- Non-Marked Hypoechogenic Nodules: Multicenter Study on the Thyroid Malignancy Risk Stratification and Accuracy Based on TIRADS Systems Comparison.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Clinical study of ultrasonic evaluation of T/N staging of differentiated thyroid carcinoma using AJCC 8th staging criteria.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Use of Diagnostic Criteria from ACR and EU-TIRADS Systems to Improve the Performance of Cytology in Thyroid Nodule Triage.Cancers · 2021Article
- Performance of European Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System in Stratifying Malignancy Risk of Thyroid Nodules: A Prospective Study.Journal of medical ultrasoundArticle
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Abstract
objectivesWe aimed to evaluate and compare the diagnostic performance of five ultrasound thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TI-RADS) classification guidelines for thyroid nodules through a review and meta-analysis.
methodsWe searched for relevant studies before February 2020 in PubMed. Then we pooled the sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, diagnostic odds ratios, and area under the summary receiver operating characteristic curves. And the diagnostic odds ratios were used to compare the performance.
resultsWe totally included 19 studies with 4,696 lesions in this research. The pooled sensitivity of American College of Radiology (ACR) guidelines, American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines, TI-RADS proposed by Kwak (Kwak TI-RADS), Korean Thyroid Association/Korean Society of Thyroid Radiology (KTA/KSThR) guidelines for malignancy risk and European Thyroid Association (ETA) guidelines is between 0.84 and 0.94. The pooled specificity is 0.68, 0.44, 0.62, 0.47, and 0.61, respectively. And the RDOR is 1.57 (ACR
conclusionsThe results suggest that five classification guidelines are all effective methods for differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid nodules and ACR guideline is a better choice.
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