Validation and comparison of three newly-released Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data Systems for cancer risk determination.
Ting XuYa WuRun-Xin WuYu-Zhi ZhangJing-Yu GuXin-Hua YeWei TangShu-Hang XuChao LiuXiao-Hong WuPublished in: Endocrine (2018)
All these US models showed great value in predicting thyroid malignancy. Among them, KSThR-TIRADS showed the most effective diagnostic performance in specificity, while ACR-TIRADS yielded best sensitivity. As for FNAB criteria, ACR-TIRADS showed the lowest rate of unnecessary FNAB and highest rate of malignancy in FNAB.