Table 1.
Diagnostic Tools.
| *History (see TNAPP) | |
| Radiation | |
| Family History | |
| Symptoms | |
| Thyroid Disease | |
| Disorders of function | |
| Structural abnormalities | |
| *Physical Exam | |
| Initial | |
| Serial | |
| Laboratory determinations | |
| *TSH levels | |
| Calcitonin levels | |
| Imaging: | |
| *Ultrasound | |
| *Standard B mode imaging | |
| Elastography | |
| Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound | |
| **Artificial Intelligence | |
| **Computer Aided Diagnosis | |
| **Radiomics | |
| Nuclear medicine | |
| Radioactive Iodine | |
| PET (FDG) | |
| *Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) | |
| *Risk Score Stratification Tools (Clinical Calculators) | |
| Computer Interactive Guidelines | |
| *Fine Needle Aspiration | |
| *Molecular Marker/Diagnostics (mostly USA) | |
| DNA (Mutations) | |
| Messenger RNA | |
| micro– RNA | |
| Immunocytochemistry | |
| *Principal | |
| **Emerging | |