Association of tumor size and focality with recurrence/persistence in papillary thyroid cancer patients treated with total thyroidectomy along with radioactive-iodine ablation and TSH suppression

Autor: Syed Raza Hussain, Misbah Khan, Namra Urooj, Aamir Ali Syed, Amina Iqbal Khan
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Updates in Surgery. 70:121-127
ISSN: 2038-3312
2038-131X
Popis: Locoregional recurrence is common in papillary thyroid cancer PTC and an optimal surgical treatment with respect to the multifocal nature of the disease stays controversial. It is a retrospective analytical study design. 209 diagnosed PTCs managed at our institute were grouped into macro-PTC with a size of dominant focus >1 cm (unifocal n = 106 and multifocal n = 64) and micro-PTMC if size of all foci was
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