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Diferencias y controversias entre el reporte de patología y la interpretación clínica en patología tiroidea. I parte: Factores pronósticos

Rev. colomb. cancerol; 21 (3), 2017
Resumen El cáncer de la glándula tiroides es una neoplasia cuya detección, diagnóstico y tratamiento se realiza de manera interdisciplinaria, por lo tanto el diagnóstico definitivo histopatológico debe ser completo y claro; de modo que pueda ser interpretado de la misma manera por parte del grupo m...

Serum ghrelin levels in papillary thyroid carcinoma

ABSTRACT Objective Ghrelin plays a role in several processes of cancer progression, and numerous cancer types express ghrelin and its receptor. We aimed to investigate serum levels of ghrelin in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and its association with the prognostic factors in PTC. Mat...

Carcinoma familiar de tiroides no medular: reporte de un caso clínico y revisión de la literatura

El carcinoma tiroideo familiar no medular (CFTNM) representa aproximadamente entre el 3,2% y 9,6% de todos los cánceres de tiroides, y se define por la presencia de cáncer diferenciado de tiroides en 2 o más familiares, en ausencia de otros síndromes familiares conocidos o exposición a radiación. S...

Deaths related to differentiated thyroid cancer: a rare but real event

ABSTRACT Objective The present study describes the clinical and tumor characteristics of patients that died from differentiated thyroid cancer and reports on the cause and circumstances of death in these cases. Subjects and methods Retrospective analysis of all the differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC)...

Intrathoracic stomach mimicking bone metastasis from thyroid cancer in whole-body iodine-131 scan diagnosed by SPECT/CT

SUMMARY The whole-body iodine-131 scintigraphy is an imaging technique in monitoring patients with a history of thyroid cancer. Although the rate of false positives is negligible, it is not nonexistent. We report the case of an intervened and treated patient for thyroid cancer with good clinical and bioc...

Thyroid Carcinoma Pattern Presentation According to Age

Abstract Introduction Patients with thyroid cancer in different age groups present with different prognosis. Objective The objective of this study is to analyze the clinicopathological pattern of thyroid carcinoma presentation according to age groups. Methods This is a retrospective study. From 2000 t...

Radiation exposure and thyroid cancer: a review

ABSTRACT The association between radiation exposure and the occurrence of thyroid cancer has been well documented, and the two main risk factors for the development of a thyroid cancer are the radiation dose delivered to the thyroid gland and the age at exposure. The risk increases after exposure to a me...

Recombinant human TSH versus thyroid hormone withdrawal in adjuvant therapy with radioactive iodine of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and clinically apparent lymph node metastases not limited to the central compartment (cN1b)

ABSTRACT Objective To compare the short- and long-term outcomes of adjuvant therapy with radioactive iodine (RAI) preceded by the administration of recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) versus thyroid hormone withdrawal (THW) in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and clinically apparent lymph node metas...

Clinical impact of thyroglobulin (Tg) and Tg autoantibody (TgAb) measurements in needle washouts of neck lymph node biopsies in the management of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma

ABSTRACT Objectives The presence of thyroglobulin (Tg) in needle washouts of fine needle aspiration biopsy (Tg-FNAB) in neck lymph nodes (LNs) suspected of metastasis has become a cornerstone in the follow-up of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, there are limited data regarding ...

Pancreatoduodenectomía por tumor sólido pseudopapilar de páncreas en niños

El tumor sólido pseudopapilar de páncreas (TSP) en niños es una neoplasia rara en este grupo etareo y con bajo potencial de malignidad. Presentamos el caso de una niña de 9 años con TSP de cabeza de páncreas que fue resecado mediante una pancreatoduodenectomía (PD) con evolución favorable. La PD ...