Thyroidectomy in children and adolescents: distinguishing benign from malignant thyroid nodules.

J Pediatr (Rio J) · 2025 · PMC12495576 · PMID 40782827

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tendency towards significancep = 0.068so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Hypoechoic echogenicity was present in 32 % of the ultrasounds, and after logistic regression of independent factors for the presence of malignancy, the hypoechoic nodule showed a tendency towards significance ( p = 0.068), suggesting a possible association with malignancy.

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