Incidental thyroid nodules on COVID-19-related thoracic tomography scans: a giant cohort

CONCLUSION: Increased use of thoracic CT during the COVID-19 pandemic probably enabled improved detection of ITNs. In this large-scale study, the prevalence of thyroid nodules reported with thoracic CT was 3.82%, while thyroid cancer was detected in 1.30% of patients evaluated with US. We recommend against using thoracic CT scans as a direct means of assessing thyroid disease owing to the low number of detected cancer cases in our cohort of 35,113 patients. However, thoracic CT scans obtained for various reasons might provide the opportunity for early diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease, including cancers.PMID:38103164 | DOI:10.1007/s42000-023-00516-9

Source: Hormones - December 16, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Burcak Cavnar Helvac ı Didem Ozdemir Kubra Turan Caglar Keskin Narin Nasiroglu İmga Ahmet Dirikoc Oya Topaloglu Reyhan Ersoy Bekir Cakir Source Type: research