Is stimulation of thyroglobulin (Tg) useful in low-risk patients with thyroid carcinoma and undetectable Tg on thyroxin and negative neck ultrasound? Commentary

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-120

  Schlumberger, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROXINE;

CANCER RECURRENCE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RISK; SIDE EFFECT; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 13444250113     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02211.x     Document Type: Note

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