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Introduction Current postoperative follow-up (FU) and dynamic response to treatment (RTT) assessment of thyroid cancer primarily depends on postoperative neck ultrasound (POU) and thyroglobulin (Tg) determination ( 1 ). This FU strategy is
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the values of postoperative serum Tg and neck ultrasound (US) [ 17 , 18 ]. Despite the evidence of a limited therapeutic role of RRA in LR and IR DTC, to our knowledge, no studies on the benefits of the diagnostic role of ptWBS have been reported so
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; counts, 12,345). Neck Ultrasound Cervical US was performed with linear, multifrequency, 7.5- to 10-MHz transducers and integrated with color Doppler (EnVisor Phillips) examinations by the same radiologist. Statistical Analysis All data are
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admission revealed a palpable painless tissue mass in the right cervical area. Protrusion of the posterior pharyngeal wall was observed during the endoscopic examination but no fixation of the vocal cords or subglottic stenosis. A neck ultrasound was
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clinical surveillance including repeated neck ultrasound examination as well as basal and calcium (pentagastrin)-stimulated calcitonin levels [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Two of these were previously confirmed to have thyroid nodules (I/5 and II/7). Histological
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Introduction Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common thyroid malignancy. The widespread use of neck ultrasound (US) has led to the identification of small asymptomatic thyroid nodules with indeterminate clinical relevance [ 1
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. Patients’ characteristics at diagnosis Patients underwent a visit 3 months after surgery (Fig. 1 ) evaluating basal and recombinant human TSH-stimulated thyroglobulin (TG) levels, anti-TG antibody (ATG) levels, neck ultrasound (US), whole-body I
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-specific MRs in this large cohort of patients with TC. Finally, we have performed an additional analysis to explore the role of changes in the routine management of thyroid nodular disease, that is, performance of neck ultrasound (US) and fine-needle aspiration
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138 and 136 mCi of 131 I respectively and was maintained on thyroid hormone replacement. She underwent 131 I scanning and neck ultrasound 5 years after the initial diagnosis and therapy which did not show any recurrence. The patient was recurrence
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considerations: first, the indolent biological course of lymph node metastases, and, second, the low detection rate of lymph node metastases in the 1970s. At that time, neither neck ultrasound (US) nor serum thyroglobulin (Tg) measurements were available in