ABSTRACT Introduction: papillary thyroid carcinoma is a tumor with good prognosis. However, some patients treated present neck recurrence. Objective: to evaluate the risk factors for neck recurrence. Methods: a retrospective study enrolled 89 patients (68 women and 21 men) diagnosed with papillary ...
O cisto do ducto tiroglosso é uma anomalia congênita comum, decorrente da falha do desenvolvimento embriológico. Sempre que diagnosticado, é indicada a excisão cirúrgica do cisto, devido ao risco de infecção e malignidade, sendo mais comum o carcinoma papilífero da tireoide. Este trabalho relata...
ABSTRACT Objectives To determine the percentage of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) who accepted active surveillance as an alternative to surgery in our clinical practice and to describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with Bethesda category V and VI thyroid nodules...
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...
