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method to manage aggressive thyroid cancers is surgical removal of the thyroid gland (thyroidectomy) followed by radioactive iodine ablation and thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression therapy [ 3 , 4 ]. However, after successful treatment, 35% of
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thyroid surgery was preceded by fine-needle aspiration (FNA), suggesting less selective surgery, and the proportion of histological thyroid cancer diagnosis after total thyroidectomy was lower. Finally, in the HIR, less thyroid cancer patients had been
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total thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine ablation at the Thyroid Cancer Clinic of our Institute and to assess which of these most accurately predicted outcomes using clinical end points. The secondary objective was to compare the performance of the
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near-total thyroidectomy (97.6%), associated with lymph node dissections in 55 cases (21.6%). Eighty-four patients (32.9%) were operated in the Head and Neck Surgery Department of our institution. The remaining 171 patients underwent surgery at other
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finger revealed metastasis from the follicular carcinoma thyroid. Chest X-ray and CT scans revealed multiple pulmonary nodules with retrosternal extension of the thyroid. Serum thyroglobulin was 28,320 ng/ml. The patient underwent total thyroidectomy
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are convinced that at our institution, radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA), when administered after potentially curative bilateral thyroidectomy (BT) to low-risk (MACIS scores <6) adult PTC (APTC) patients, has not reduced ( 7 ) either cause
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(Epic ® ). FNA cytology was classified according to The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) ( 22 ). A two-stage thyroidectomy was defined as a lobectomy followed by a completion thyroidectomy. Prophylactic CND (level VI or levels
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thyroidectomy between 1995 and 2005 in Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. Patients aged between 45 and 75 years, with tumors between 1 and 4 cm, were included in the study. We excluded patients with distant metastasis before surgery or patients with type 1