Does the ACR TI-RADS scoring allow us to safely avoid unnecessary thyroid biopsy? single center analysis in a large cohort.

Introduction: The American College of Radiology (ACR) has recently proposed a guideline that recommends clinicians to perform thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) on the basis of ultrasound features. In this study, we focused on nodules for which no biopsy is recommended by the ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) guideline.

Subjects And Methods: Two-thousand eight-hundred and forty-seven consecutive patients with thyroid nodules who underwent FNAB according to the 2009 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guideline were included.