Preoperative undetectable serum thyroglobulin in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: Incidence, causes and management strategy

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 547-551

  Giovanella, Luca ^a,c   Ceriani, Luca ^a   Ghelfo, Antonella ^b   Maffioli, Marco ^b   Keller, Franco ^c  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospital   (Italy)

^c Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA, OXYPHILIC; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 34548703116     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02922.x     Document Type: Article

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