The American Thyroid Association’s latest guidelines on the management of adults with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer “strongly recommend” routine measurement of thyroid-stimulating hormone serum levels for initial evaluation of thyroid nodules, and strongly recommend against doing the same for serum thyroglobulin (Thyroid 2016;26[1]:1-133, PMID: 26462967).
Other strong recommendations in the guidelines include the following:
- Focal fluorodeoxyglucose PET