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Beyond the Recommendations of the Clinical Guidelines for Medullary Thyroid Cancer - A Case Report

Rev. méd. Chile; 151 (7), 2023
Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare disease from parafollicular C cells. Calcitonin has been suggested as a screening; its levels are proportional to the tumor size and predictive of metastatic disease. We present a case where an early action was taken with lower cut-off points. Male patient, 49 yea...

Análisis de tiroglobulina preablativa y cáncer diferenciado de tiroides preoperatorio

Rev. med. Chile; 150 (7), 2022
BACKGROUND: The measurement of plasma thyroglobulin (Tg) is widely used in the monitoring of differentiated thyroid cancer (CDT). In recent years, its value as a prognostic marker prior to ablation with radioiodine has increased, demonstrating its high negative predictive value. Recent studies indicate t...

Rendimiento del sistema Bethesda en el diagnóstico citopatológico del nódulo tiroideo en un centro universitario (Hospital de Clínicas) de Uruguay, diez años de experiencia

Rev. méd. Urug; 38 (2), 2022
Resumen: Introducción: el estudio citológico por punción ecoguiada se caracteriza por ser rápido, confiable, mínimamente invasivo y rentable. Permite reducir procedimientos quirúrgicos innecesarios y clasifica apropiadamente a los pacientes con nódulos sospechosos o malignos para una intervención...

Grayscale, subjective color Doppler, combined grayscale with subjective color Doppler in predicting thyroid carcinoma: a retrospective analysis

Abstract Introduction: Fine needle aspiration cytology is preferred for thyroid nodules preoperatively, but has disadvantages of false-negative and false-positive results. Objective: To compare the diagnostic performance of grayscale ultrasound, subjective color Doppler ultrasound, and combined feature...

Intraoperative frozen section performance for thyroid cancer diagnosis

ABSTRACT Objective: A primary medical relevance of thyroid nodules consists of excluding thyroid cancer, present in approximately 5% of all thyroid nodules. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) has a paramount role in distinguishing benign from malignant thyroid nodules due to its availability and diagn...

The impact of the genetic background in a patient with papillary thyroid cancer and familial adenomatous polyposis

SUMMARY Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the main subtype. The cribriform morular variant is a histological phenotype of PTC characterized by its relationship with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Description of the case: We report the ...

Metástasis cervical de cáncer papilar oculto de tiroides: reporte de casos

El microcarcinoma papilar de tiroides es definido como un tumor de un cm o menos de diámetro mayor. La mayoría permanecen ocultos clínicamente, siendo un hallazgo en autopsias hasta en 36%. La presentación oculta ocurre hasta en un 10 a 26% de todas las neoplasias malignas de tiroides y se define com...

Carcinoma papilar tiroideo con invasión locorregional: reporte de caso

El cáncer diferenciado de tiroides incluye el tipo papilar y folicular que representan más del 80% de los casos y tienen un excelente pronóstico. Existen varios subtipos histológicos y las variantes foliculares son probablemente las más comunes. La incidencia de cáncer papilar variante folicular ha...

Variante células altas de cáncer papilar de tiroides: reporte de casos

El cáncer papilar constituye aproximadamente el 80% de todos los casos de cáncer de tiroides y el 85% de los tumores diferenciados. La variante de células altas representa el 1,3 al 12% del cáncer papilar siendo la variante agresiva más común de estos tumores. Posee un comportamiento agresivo, con ...

Differentiated thyroid cancer clinical trends in Quito, Ecuador

Introduction.Thyroid cancer is currently the first most common cancer in women in Ecuador. This study aimed to assess the changes in clinical presentation and diagnosis of differentiated thyroid cancer at a third level hospital in Quito, Ecuador.Methods and Materials.This is a retrospective case s...