What can the National Lung Screening Trial teach us about incidental thyroid nodules?

How common are incidental thyroid nodules (ITNs) in the U.S. screening population? And which ITNs should receive further evaluation? A researcher from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, examined data from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) to answer those questions, sharing her findings in a new study for Academic Radiology.