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Introduction The European Thyroid Association (ETA) launched a taskforce, chaired by Martin Schlumberger, to create guidelines on the treatment of metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) [ 1 ]. The decision to create a focused guideline
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Premise Few prospective studies are available on the management of patients with advanced thyroid cancer (TC), and the decision making is mostly based on the personal experience of physicians. The present guidelines are mainly based on the
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We appreciate the interest of Stott et al. [ 1 ] in the Management of Subclinical Hypothyroidism ETA Guidelines 2013 [ 2 ]. We are, however, somewhat puzzled by the authors' statement that the guidelines ‘risk doing more harm than good
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been in widespread use ever since. Guidelines for the management of hyperthyroidism by the American Thyroid Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists were published in 2011; recommendations were made on how hyperthyroidism should
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References 1 Wiersinga WM, Duntas L, Fadeyev V, Nygaard B, Vanderpump MPJ: 2012 ETA Guidelines: the use of L-T4 + L-T3 in the treatment of hypothyroidism. Eur Thyroid J 2012;1:55–71. 2 Bunevicius R, Kazanavicius G, Zalinkevicius R
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not specifically highlight that age should be a criterion when considering treatment in patients with mild SCH, although it does state that normal serum TSH reference range changes with age [ 20 ]. It is unclear whether guidelines formulated by these
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Introduction Thyroid ultrasound (TUS) is the most sensitive and cost-effective modality for the evaluation of thyroid nodules ( 1 ). When thyroid nodules are incidentally discovered on other imaging modalities, current guidelines suggest that
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(PTU) is associated with rare but severe liver failure [ 7 , 8 ]. The Endocrine Society guidelines on the management of thyroid disorders, including hyperthyroidism, during pregnancy were published in 2007 [ 9 ]. The aim of this questionnaire survey was
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Nuclear Medicine Department to perform this treatment. Beginning with the 2006 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines, which were updated in 2009 and 2015, more selective use of RAI has been recommended ( 5 , 6 , 7 ). In 2009, RAI ablation was