Long-term surveillance of papillary thyroid cancer patients who do not undergo postoperative radioiodine remnant ablation: Is there a role for serum thyroglobulin measurement?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2748-2753

  Durante, Cosimo ^a   Montesano, Teresa ^a   Attard, Marco ^b   Torlontano, Massimo ^c   Monzani, Fabio ^g   Costante, Giuseppe ^e   Meringolo, Domenico ^f   Ferdeghini, Marco ^d   Tumino, Salvatore ^h   Lamartina, Livia ^a   Paciaroni, Alessandra ^a   Massa, Michela ^c   Giacomelli, Laura ^a   Ronga, Giuseppe ^a   Filetti, Sebastiano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia Cervello   (Italy)

^c CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^f Ospedale di Bentivoglio   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIODINE REMNANT ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84864796231     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1123     Document Type: Article

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