Archive of Thyroid Research
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Serum calcitonin should be measured in patients with thyroid nodules
Ultrasonography is valuable for detecting lymph-node metastases and local recurrence in patients with thyroid carcinoma
November 2003
Positron emission tomography occasionally reveals incidental thyroid nodules
Different serum thyroglobulin assays may give discordant results in patients with thyroid carcinoma
Cervical lymph node spread and high calcitonin secretion predict recurrence of medullary thyroid carcinoma
July 2003
Small papillary thyroid carcinomas grow very slowly
Differentiated thyroid carcinoma can grow rapidly in older patients
Among patients with Hurthle-cell carcinoma, older age and large tumor size predict a poor outcome
Similar outcome in patients with Hurthle-cell carcinoma and follicular carcinoma
The characteristics and course of pure papillary carcinoma and follicular variant of papillary carcinoma are similar
The efficacy of iodine-131 therapy in patients with thyroid carcinoma is increased by a low iodine diet
March 2003
Radioiodine can substitute for surgery to complete thyroidectomy in patients with thyroid cancer
Serum thyrotropin concentrations rise soon after thyroxine therapy is stopped in patients with thyroid cancer
Ultrasonography is the most sensitive test for detection of recurrent thyroid cancer in the neck
November 2002
Completion thyroidectomy can be done safely after thyroid lobectomy in patients with thyroid carcinoma
More extensive surgery and radioiodine therapy have had limited benefit in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma
Radioiodine therapy does not impair fertility in men with thyroid carcinoma
High serum antithyroglobulin concentrations after initial therapy predict recurrence in patients with thyroid carcinoma
July 2002
Radioiodine scans have limited value in thyroid-cancer patients with undetectable serum thyroglobulin values
Treatment with radioiodine does not decrease fertility in women with thyroid cancer
Surgical resection of bone metastases may be beneficial in patients with thyroid cancer
March 2002
Fine-needle aspiration biopsies of thyroid nodules that are "nondiagnostic" do not exclude thyroid carcinoma
Thirty percent of patients with a thyroid nodule that is a follicular tumor on biopsy prove to have thyroid carcinoma
Anaplastic cancer of the thyroid: a summary of 50 years' experience at a single institution
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