AC Camargo Hospital

Discontinuous Peripheral Punctate Echogenic Foci in Thyroid Nodules: A New Sonographic Pattern Suggestive of Papillary Carcinoma

Background: Ultrasound risk stratification systems for thyroid nodules worldwide describe different types of echogenic foci, including punctate echogenic foci (microcalcifications), coarse internal calcifications, and peripheral (rim) calcifications (complete or incomplete), with...

Limited agreement between nutritional screening tools and CT-defined body composition alterations in hospitalized cancer patients: a real-world analysis

Abstract Purpose Nutritional screening tools are widely used in routine oncologic care to identify patients at nutritional risk. However, their ability to identify hospitalized patients with relevant alterations in body composition remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate wh...