OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the adequacy and efficacy of ultrasound (US)-guided fine-needle aspiration (US-FNA) for small solid thyroid nodules (SSTNs) with the largest diameter <5 mm and compared these according to nodule size. STUDY DESIGN Among 656 SSTNs in 569 patients, each SSTN was classified into 1 of 4 groups according to the largest diameter: 1 mm ≤ group A < 2 mm; 2 mm ≤ group B < ...

PURPOSE This study was performed to determine the malignancy risk of thyroid nodules with isolated macrocalcification and to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and core needle biopsy (CNB). METHODS From May 2008 to December 2014, a total of 44 patients with isolated macrocalcifications were enrolled from 4,081 consecutive patients who underwent FNA or CNB at a si...

introduction: today the prevalence of teeth decays has considerably decreased. related organizations and institutions mention several reasons for it such as improvement of decay diagnostic equipment and tools which are even capable of detecting caries in their initial stages. this resulted in reduction of costs for patients and remarkable increase in teeth life span. there are many methods for ...

This paper summarizes the literature on computer-aided detection (CAD) systems used to identify and diagnose lung nodules in images obtained with computed tomography (CT) scanners. The importance of developing such lies fact that process manually detecting is painstaking sequential work for radiologists, as it takes a long time. Moreover, pulmonary have multiple appearances shapes, large number...

Background Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is emerging as a new diagnostic tool for tubercular infections. Studies indicate variable results in relation to its efficacy making it as an investigation which is operator dependant. It still remains a dilemma to choose between PCR and culture as the most dependant and reliable diagnostic test. The purpose of our study was to determine the efficacy o...

conclusions our study demonstrated that 3d tvs has a good efficacy and reliable agreement with hysteroscopy in diagnosis of uterine lesions among infertile women. therefore, it can decrease the number of diagnostic hysteroscopies. results totally, 153 women were recruited in the investigation. patients aged 30.78 ± 4.79 years in average and the duration of infertility was 4.2 ± 2.91 years among...