Why the European Association of Nuclear Medicine has declined to endorse the 2015 American Thyroid Association management guidelines for adult patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
• ² Nuclear Medicine, Tirocenter, Adnan Saygun caddesi, Nispetiye, Besiktas, Istanbul, 34345, Turkey.
• ³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Humanitas University, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ Nuclear Medicine Department, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Center, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ⁶ Department of Nuclear Medicine & Thyroid Centre, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Nuclear Medicine, Radiology Center, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁸ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ⁹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rostock University Hospital, Rostock, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, PET-CT Center Linz, Linz, Austria.
• ¹² Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Marburg, Baldingerstraße 35043, Marburg, Germany. markus.luster@med.uni-marburg.de.