Approach to the patient with a cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodule.

Conclusion: Although surgery continues to be commonly recommended, strategies for such patients should increasingly seek to define treatment based on the estimation of an individual's thyroid cancer risk in comparison with associated operative risk and morbidity. In doing so, the rate of unnecessary surgical procedures and associated complications can be reduced.
PMID: 18987277 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism)