Lymphocytic thyroiditis on histology correlates with serum thyroglobulin autoantibodies in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: Impact on detection of serum thyroglobulin

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2380-2387

  Latrofa, Francesco ^a   Ricci, Debora ^a   Montanelli, Lucia ^a   Rocchi, Roberto ^a   Piaggi, Paolo ^a   Sisti, Eleonora ^a   Grasso, Lucia ^a   Basolo, Fulvio ^a   Ugolini, Clara ^a   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Vitti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTIC THYROIDITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 84863593480     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-2812     Document Type: Article

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