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From: Clinical value of grayscale ultrasound combined with real-time shear wave elastography nomogram in risk prediction of thyroid cancer

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The nomogram was constructed with the shape, margin, echogenicity, and echogenic foci of thyroid nodule and the elastic measurement values SWE-max and SWE-ratio as dependent variables. Shape (1: wider-than-tall; 2: taller-than-wide), margin (1: smooth, 2: ill-defined, 3: lobulated or irregular, 4: extrathyroidal extension), echogenicity (2: isoechoic, 3: hypoechoic, 4: very hypoechoic), echogenic foci (1: non-calcification or large comet-tail artifacts, 2: macrocalcifications, 3: peripheral (rim) calcifications, 4: punctate echogenic foci). To use, find the corresponding value in the ‘Total points’ score, and make a vertical line down to the ‘Risk of thyroid malignancy’ to determine the risk of thyroid nodules

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BMC Medical Imaging

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