1. Davies L, Welch HG. Increasing Incidence of Thyroid Cancer in the United States, 1973-2002. JAMA 2006;295:2164-2167.
2. Cooper DS, Doherty GM, Haugen BR, Kloos RT, Lee SL, Mandel SJ, Mazzaferri EL, McIver B, Sherman SI, Tuttle RM. Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid 2006;16:109-142.
3. Dean DS, Gharib H. Epidemiology of thyroid nodules. Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2008;22:901-911.
4. Hegedus L. Clinical practice. The thyroid nodule. N Engl J Med 2004;351:1764-1771.
5. Fukada S. Toxic multinodular goiter. Nippon Rinsho 2006;64:2227-2232.
6. Gharib H, Papini E, Paschke R. Thyroid nodules: a review of current guidelines, practices, and prospects. Eur J Endocrinol 2008;159:493-505.
7. American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and Associazione Medici Endocrinologi Medical Guidelines for clinical Practice for the Diagnosis and Management of thyroid nodules. Endocrine Practice 2006;12:63-102.
8. Frates MC, Benson CB, Charboneau JW, Cibas ES, Clark OH, Coleman BG, Cronan JJ, Doubilet PM, Evans DB, Goellner JR, Hay ID, Hertzberg BS, Intenzo CM, Jeffrey RB, Langer JE, Larsen PR, Mandel SJ, Middleton WD, Reading CC, Sherman SI, Tessler FN. Management of thyroid nodules detected at US: Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound consensus conference statement. Radiology 2005;237:794-800.
9. Kim WB, Kim TW, Kwon HS, Moon WJ, Lee JB, Choi YS, KIm SK, Kim SW, Chung KW, Baeck JH, Kim BI, Park DJ, Na DG, Choe JH, Chung JH, Jung HS, Kim JH, Nam KH, Chang HS, Chung WY, Hong SW, Hong SJ, Lee JH, Yi KH, Jo YS, Kang HC, Song M, Park JW, Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee KW. Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. J Korean Endocr Soc 2007;22:157-187.
10. Mazzaferri EL. Management of a Solitary Thyroid Nodule. N Engl J Med 1993;328:553-553.
11. Mandel SJ. A 64-year-old woman with a thyroid nodule. JAMA 2004;292:2632-2642.
12. Castro MR, Gharib H. Continuing controversies in the management of thyroid nodules. Ann Intern Med 2005;142:926-931.
13. Brignardello E, Corrias A, Isolato G, Palestini N, Cordero di, Fagioli F, Boccuzzi G. Ultrasound Screening for Thyroid Carcinoma in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Case Series. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008;93:4840-4843.
14. Bui A, Mazzaferri E. CME New Paradigms in the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Nodules. The Endocrinologist 2007;17:35.
15. Cases JA, Surks MI. The changing role of scintigraphy in the evaluation of thyroid nodules. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine 2000;30:81-87.
16. Hegedus L, Bonnema SJ, Bennedbaek FN. Management of simple nodular goiter: current status and future perspectives. Endocr Rev 2003;24:102-132.
17. Kang KW, Kim S-K, Kang H-S, Lee ES, Sim JS, Lee IG, Jeong S-Y, Kim SW. Prevalence and Risk of Cancer of Focal Thyroid Incidentaloma Identified by 18F -Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography for Metastasis Evaluation and Cancer Screening in Healthy Subjects. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003;88:4100-4104.
18. Kim JM, Ryu J-S, Kim TY, Kim WB, Kwon GY, Gong G, Moon DH, Kim SC, Hong SJ, Shong YK. 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography Does Not Predict Malignancy in Thyroid Nodules Cytologically Diagnosed as Follicular Neoplasm. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007;92:1630-1634.
19. Marqusee E, Benson CB, Frates MC, Doubilet PM, Larsen PR, Cibas ES, Mandel SJ. Usefulness of ultrasonography in the management of nodular thyroid disease. Ann Intern Med 2000;133:696-700.
20. Levine RA. Something old and something new: a brief history of thyroid ultrasound technology. Endocr Pract 2004;10:227-233.
21. Mandel SJ. Diagnostic use of ultrasonography in patients with nodular thyroid disease. Endocr Pract 2004;10:246-252.
22. Solbiati L, Osti V, Cova L, Tonolini M. Ultrasound of thyroid, parathyroid glands and neck lymph nodes. Eur Radiol 2001;11:2411-2424.
23. Ross DS. Nonpalpable Thyroid Nodules-Managing an Epidemic. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:1938-1940.
24. Gharib H, Papini E. Thyroid nodules: clinical importance, assessment, and treatment. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 2007;36:707-735. vi.
25. Baskin HJ. Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules and multinodular goiters. Endocr Pract 2004;10:242-245.
26. Can AS, Peker K. Comparison of palpation-versus ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies in the evaluation of thyroid nodules. BMC Res Notes 2008;1:12.
27. Nam-Goong Il Seong, K HY, Gong Gyungyub, Lee Ho Kyu, Hong Suck Joon, Kim Won Bae, Shong Young Kee. Ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration of thyroid incidentaloma: correlation with pathological findings. Clinical Endocrinology 2004;60:21-28.
28. Machens A, Holzhausen HJ, Dralle H. The prognostic value of primary tumor size in papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma. Cancer 2005;103:2269-2273.
29. Mazzaferri EL, Sipos J. Should All Patients with Subcentimeter Thyroid Nodules Undergo Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Preoperative Neck Ultrasonography to Define the Extent of Tumor Invasion? Thyroid 2008;18:597-602.
30. Hoang JK, Lee WK, Lee M, Johnson D, Farrell S. US Features of thyroid malignancy: pearls and pitfalls. Radiographics 2007;27:847-860. discussion 861- 865.
31. Kim E-K, Park CS, Chung WY, Oh KK, Kim DI, Lee JT, Yoo HS. New Sonographic Criteria for Recommending Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Nonpalpable Solid Nodules of the Thyroid. Am J Roentgenol 2002;178:687-691.
32. Moon W-J, Jung SL, Lee JH, Na DG, Baek J-H, Lee YH, Kim J, Kim HS, Byun JS, Lee DH. Thyroid Study Group, Korean Society of Neuro- and Head and Neck Radiology. Benign and Malignant Thyroid Nodules: US Differentiation-Multicenter Retrospective Study. Radiology 2008;247:762-770.
33. Hegedus L. Thyroid ultrasound. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 2001;30:339-360. viii-ix.
34. Brunese L, Romeo A, Iorio S, Napolitano G, Fucili S, Zeppa P, Vallone G, Lombardi G, Bellastella A, Biondi B, Sodano A. Thyroid B-flow twinkling sign: a new feature of papillary cancer. Eur J Endocrinol 2008;159:447-451.
35. Rago T, Santini F, Scutari M, Pinchera A, Vitti P. Elastography: New Developments in Ultrasound for Predicting Malignancy in Thyroid Nodules. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007;92:2917-2922.
36. Kim Won Bae, Han SM, Kim Tae Yong, Nam-Goong Il Seong, Gong Gyungyub, Lee Ho Kyu, Hong Suck Joon, Shong Young Kee. Ultrasonographic screening for detection of thyroid cancer in patients with Graves'disease. Clinical Endocrinology 2004;60:719-725.
37. Ahuja A, Chick W, King W, Metreweli C. Clinical significance of the comet-tail artifact in thyroid ultrasound. J Clin Ultrasound 1996;24:129-133.
38. Kang HC, Kim HK. Comet-tail artifact. J Korean Thyroid Assoc 2008;1:78-79.
39. Braga M, Cavalcanti TC, Collaco LM, Graf H. Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Complex Thyroid Nodules. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001;86:4089-4091.
40. Poller DN, Stelow EB, Yiangou C. Thyroid FNAC cytology: can we do it better? Cytopathology 2008;19:4-10.
41. Suen KC. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid. CMAJ 2002;167:491-495.
42. Alexander EK. Approach to the Patient with a Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008;93:4175-4182.
43. Tublin ME, Martin JA, Rollin LJ, Pealer K, Kurs-Lasky M, Ohori NP. Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration versus fineneedle capillary sampling biopsy of thyroid nodules: does technique matter? J Ultrasound Med 2007;26:1697-1701.
44. Degirmenci B, Haktanir A, Albayrak R, Acar M, Sahin DA, Sahin O, Yucel A, Caliskan G. Sonographically guided fine-needle biopsy of thyroid nodules: the effects of nodule characteristics, sampling technique, and needle size on the adequacy of cytological material. Clinical Radiology 2007;62:798-803.
45. Belfiore A, La Rosa GL. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 2001;30:361-400.
46. Castro MR, Gharib H. Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy: progress, practice, and pitfalls. Endocr Pract 2003;9:128-136.
47. Rausch P, Nowels K, Jeffrey RB Jr. Ultrasonographically guided thyroid biopsy: a review with emphasis on technique. J Ultrasound Med 2001;20:79-85.
48. Bellantone R, Lombardi CP, Raffaelli M, Traini E, De Crea C, Rossi ED, Fadda G. Management of Cystic or Predominantly Cystic Thyroid Nodules: The Role of Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy. Thyroid 2004;14:43-47.
49. Baloch ZW, LiVolsi VA. Fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: past, present, and future. Endocr Pract 2004;10:234-241.