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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...