Hao Li
Hao Li
Head and Neck Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Otorhinolaryngology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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Otorhinolaryngology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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Nir Livneh
Nir Livneh
Head and Neck Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Snjezana Dogan
Snjezana Dogan
Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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Ashok R. Shaha
Ashok R. Shaha
Head and Neck Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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of both tumors in the same thyroid gland is observed in 14.7% of thyroidectomies performed for medullary thyroid carcinomas in a series of 82 cases [ 3 ]. However, collision metastases of these 2 tumors in the same cervical lymph node have only been
Maria Mavromati
Maria Mavromati
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nutrition and Therapeutic Education, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
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Essia Saiji
Essia Saiji
Department of Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Marco Stefano Demarchi
Marco Stefano Demarchi
Department of Endocrine Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Vincent Lenoir
Vincent Lenoir
Department of Radiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Amanda Seipel
Amanda Seipel
Department of Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Paulina Kuczma
Paulina Kuczma
Department of Endocrine Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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François R Jornayvaz
François R Jornayvaz
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nutrition and Therapeutic Education, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
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Minerva Becker
Minerva Becker
Department of Radiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Eugenio Fernandez
Eugenio Fernandez
Department of Oncology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Claudio De Vito
Claudio De Vito
Department of Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Frédéric Triponez
Frédéric Triponez
Department of Endocrine Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Sophie Leboulleux
Sophie Leboulleux
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nutrition and Therapeutic Education, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
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surgical procedure performed in most cases and depending on the final pathology and risk of recurrence classification, a second surgery may be necessary to complete total thyroidectomy. Preoperative molecular analyses are now available for suspicious
Johannes Järhult
Johannes Järhult
Department of Surgery, Highland Hospital, Eksjö, Sweden
Department of Surgery, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden
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Department of Surgery, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden
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Ramtin Vedad
Ramtin Vedad
Department of Surgery, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden
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in continued expectancy. Thus, 22% of the original 473 patients underwent thyroid surgery during the follow-up period. The predominant operations were lobectomy (53) and total thyroidectomy (41). Table 1 Main indication for 236 re
Samuel Chan
Samuel Chan
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Katarina Karamali
Katarina Karamali
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Anna Kolodziejczyk
Anna Kolodziejczyk
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Georgios Oikonomou
Georgios Oikonomou
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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John Watkinson
John Watkinson
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, GOSH, London, United Kingdom
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Vinidh Paleri
Vinidh Paleri
The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Iain Nixon
Iain Nixon
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, NHS Lothian, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Dae Kim
Dae Kim
Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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to increased use of imaging. Adequate surgery remains the most important prognostic determinant in the management of DTC [ 2 ]. The standard of care until recently has been total thyroidectomy (TT) and adjuvant radio-active iodine (RAI) for all such
Kirsten E. Stewart
Kirsten E. Stewart
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, St John’s Hospital at Howden, Livingston, United Kingdom
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Mark W.J. Strachan
Mark W.J. Strachan
Metabolic Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Devraj Srinivasan
Devraj Srinivasan
Department of Oncology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Morna MacNeill
Morna MacNeill
Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Lucy Wall
Lucy Wall
Department of Oncology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Iain J. Nixon
Iain J. Nixon
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, St John’s Hospital at Howden, Livingston, United Kingdom
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cancer (PTC) treated with TKI therapy and who subsequently underwent total thyroidectomy and central lymph node dissection. Very few patients treated with TKIs for unresectable local disease have been reported to date; hence, the clinical and pathological
Matthieu Bosset
Matthieu Bosset
Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Maxime Bonjour
Maxime Bonjour
Service de Biostatistique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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Solène Castellnou
Solène Castellnou
Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Zakia Hafdi-Nejjari
Zakia Hafdi-Nejjari
Registre des Cancers Thyroïdiens du Département du Rhône, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Claire Bournaud-Salinas
Claire Bournaud-Salinas
Centre de Médecine Nucléaire, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Myriam Decaussin-Petrucci
Myriam Decaussin-Petrucci
Service d’Anatomie-Pathologique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre Bénite, France
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Jean Christophe Lifante
Jean Christophe Lifante
Service de Chirurgie Endocrinienne, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre Bénite, France
Laboratoire Health Services and Performance Research (EA 7425 HESPER), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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Laboratoire Health Services and Performance Research (EA 7425 HESPER), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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Agnès Perrin
Agnès Perrin
Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Jean-Louis Peix
Jean-Louis Peix
Service de Chirurgie Endocrinienne, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre Bénite, France
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Philippe Moulin
Philippe Moulin
Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
CarMeN Laboratory, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm U1060, INRA U1397, INSA Lyon, IMBL, Villeurbanne, France
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CarMeN Laboratory, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm U1060, INRA U1397, INSA Lyon, IMBL, Villeurbanne, France
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Geneviève Sassolas
Geneviève Sassolas
Registre des Cancers Thyroïdiens du Département du Rhône, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Michel Pugeat
Michel Pugeat
Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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Françoise Borson-Chazot
Françoise Borson-Chazot
Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
Registre des Cancers Thyroïdiens du Département du Rhône, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
Laboratoire Health Services and Performance Research (EA 7425 HESPER), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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Registre des Cancers Thyroïdiens du Département du Rhône, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
Laboratoire Health Services and Performance Research (EA 7425 HESPER), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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mainstay of PTC treatment is surgical resection which allows removal of the tumor, perform histology, and classify patients (4–5). Lobectomy was performed in our center mostly during the eighties and early nineties. Total thyroidectomy, which has been
Anne-Sophie Bertrand
Anne-Sophie Bertrand
Department of Interventional Radiology Imaging, Antoine Lacassagne Cancer Research Center, Nice, France
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Antoine Iannessi
Antoine Iannessi
Department of Interventional Radiology Imaging, Antoine Lacassagne Cancer Research Center, Nice, France
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Isabelle Peyrottes
Isabelle Peyrottes
Department of Anatomopathology, Antoine Lacassagne Cancer Research Center, Nice, France
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Alexis Lacout
Alexis Lacout
Department of Radiology, Centre médico-chirurgical ELSAN, Aurillac, France
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Antoine Thyss
Antoine Thyss
Department of Oncology, Antoine Lacassagne Cancer Research Center, Nice, France
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Pierre-Yves Marcy
Pierre-Yves Marcy
Department of Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Polyclinique Les Fleurs Groupe ELSAN, Ollioules, France
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thyroidectomy and central lymph node dissection in March 2012. The size of the papillary thyroid tumor was 12 mm. PTC was of pure common papillary histological pattern (Fig. 1 ). Neither thyroid capsule invasion nor extrathyroid extension had been found on a
Mathieu Spaas
Mathieu Spaas
Department of Radiation Oncology, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Brigitte Decallonne
Brigitte Decallonne
Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Annouschka Laenen
Annouschka Laenen
Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre, Leuven, Belgium
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Jaak Billen
Jaak Billen
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Sandra Nuyts
Sandra Nuyts
Department of Radiation Oncology, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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of DTC usually consists of total thyroidectomy followed by radioactive iodine (RAI) remnant ablation (RRA). Postoperative administration of RAI serves three major goals: the first is to destroy any residual microscopic disease as well as any remaining
Clotilde Saïe
Clotilde Saïe
Thyroid and Endocrine Tumors Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Cécile Ghander
Cécile Ghander
Thyroid and Endocrine Tumors Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Samir Saheb
Samir Saheb
Apheresis Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, AP-HP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Christel Jublanc
Christel Jublanc
Department of Endocrinology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Denis Lemesle
Denis Lemesle
Department of Anaesthesia, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Charlotte Lussey-Lepoutre
Charlotte Lussey-Lepoutre
Nuclear Medicine Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne Université, Inserm U970, Paris, France
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Laurence Leenhardt
Laurence Leenhardt
Thyroid and Endocrine Tumors Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Fabrice Menegaux
Fabrice Menegaux
Department of Surgery, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Christophe Tresallet
Christophe Tresallet
Department of Surgery, Avicennes Hospital, Paris, France
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Camille Buffet
Camille Buffet
Thyroid and Endocrine Tumors Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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any radical treatment of hyperthyroidism (i.e., thyroidectomy or radioiodine treatment) [ 1 ]. We report a retrospective series of 22 hyperthyroid patients who underwent TPE in our tertiary care center hospital. Our goals were to describe the use
Pedro Weslley Souza Rosario
Pedro Weslley Souza Rosario
Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Gabriela Franco Mourão
Gabriela Franco Mourão
Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Pedro Henrique Lopes Oliveira
Pedro Henrique Lopes Oliveira
Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Tulio Henrique Silva
Tulio Henrique Silva
Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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them with some metastases > 5 mm. None of the patients had serum thyroglobulin > 2 ng/mL after total thyroidectomy or > 10 ng/mL after lobectomy with isthmectomy, or a clinical suspicion of metastases in the first assessment and 18 months after surgery
