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Is thyroid nodule volume predictive for malignancy?

ABSTRACT Objective: We aimed to determine the roles of preoperative thyroid nodule diameter and volume in the prediction of malignancy. Subjects and methods: The medical records of patients who underwent thyroidectomy between January 2007 and December 2014 were reviewed. The nodule diameters were group...

Caracterización clínica, patológica y epidemiológica de pacientes con carcinoma diferenciado de tiroides
Clinical, pathological and epidemiological characterization of patients with thyroid differentiated carcinoma

Medisan; 23 (4), 2019
Introducción: El diagnóstico y tratamiento de pacientes con nódulo de tiroides son un desafío clínico, instrumental, imagenológico y patológico, y a pesar de que no representan un problema de salud en Cuba, afecta a un grupo importante de la población, fundamentalmente en edad laboral. Objetivo:...

Carcinoma papilar multicéntrico con compromiso de la pirámide de Lalouette y metástasis ganglionares contralaterales
Multicenter papillary carcinoma with pyramid involvement Lalouette and contralateral ganglion metastases

Resolution of fatty liver disease after growth hormone replacement in a pediatric survivor of thyroid cancer

Abstract Background A rare case of primary papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and growth hormone (GH) deficiency in a pediatric patient is described. In addition, the patient developed fatty liver disease attributed to GH deficiency. Case report A 10-year-old male with a history of PTC with extension to th...

Perfil epidemiológico de pacientes com diagnóstico de carcinoma diferenciado de tireoide em seguimento em ambulatório de endocrinologia

Objetivo: Avaliar o perfil epidemiológico de pacientes com diagnóstico de carcinoma diferenciado de tireoide. Métodos: Estudo analítico descritivo, realizado por meio da análise e da coleta de dados de 34 prontuários de pacientes em seguimento em um ambulatório de endocrinologia de um hospital pú...

Prevalance of papillary thyroid carcinoma among patients underwent thyroidectomy and its relative relation to medical Z-Ray exposure

Prensa méd. argent; 105 (3), 2019
Background: The papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common cancer among well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Exposure to environmental radiation adn edical X-Ray can be considered as an iportant risk factor. The aim of the study to evaluate the prevalence of papillary thyroid carcinoma among patien...

Preoperative detection of TERT promoter and BRAFV600E mutations in papillary thyroid carcinoma in high-risk thyroid nodules

ABSTRACT Objectives: This observational study analyzed telomerase reverse transcriptase (pTERT) mutations in 45 fine-needle aspiration (FNA) specimens obtained from thyroid nodules followed by postoperatively confirmation of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) diagnosis, examining their relationship with cli...

Association between BRAF (V600E) mutation and clinicopathological features of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a Brazilian single-centre case series

ABSTRACT Objectives: We aimed to investigate the prevalence of the BRAF (V600E) mutation in consecutive cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in patients diagnosed and treated at the Hospital Sao Rafael (Salvador, BA, Brazil) and evaluate its association with clinical and pathological characteristi...

El cáncer diferenciado de tiroides: experiencia clínica frente a un panorama cambiante

Rev. argent. cir; 111 (1), 2019
Antecedentes: el cáncer de tiroides es el cáncer endocrino más frecuente, ha aumentado significativamente su incidencia y se han producido importantes cambios en su tratamiento. Objetivos: analizar una población de pacientes con cáncer diferenciado de tiroides tratados en el Hospital Universitario A...