Diagnosis: Indeterminate thyroid nodules--two scores are better than one.

Abstract

Defining follicular thyroid lesions with indeterminate cytology as either benign or malignant without surgery is an important clinical challenge. Maia and colleagues integrated the Thyroid Imaging and Data Reporting System with the Bethesda System for malignancy risk classification; their report suggests that this method leads to increased diagnostic accuracy with direct clinical implications.