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Thyroid nodule ultrasound reports in routine clinical practice provide insufficient information to estimate risk of malignancy

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-018-1634-0

Published Online: 2018-05-25

Published Print: 2018-08

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Authors

Symonds, Christopher John https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8509-4477
Seal, Paula

Ghaznavi, Sana

Cheung, Winson Y.

Paschke, Ralf
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Article History

Received: 22 March 2018

Accepted: 10 May 2018

First Online: 25 May 2018

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: This article does not contain any procedures with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. Ultrasound studies were all performed as part of usual clinical care. Full ethics approval was granted for this study by our Institutional Review Board (IRB).

: The need for informed consent was waived by our IRB given the retrospective nature of the anonymous review of ultrasound studies performed for usual clinical care.