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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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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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published guidelines, in the first 1-2 years after initial surgery and radioiodine treatment, risk restratification relies primarily on thyroglobulin (Tg) measurement and neck ultrasound (US). The usefulness of neck US for the assessment of therapeutic
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unavailable, molecular testing on ultrasound (US)-guided fine needle aspirate (FNA) from a metastatic neck lymph node seems a suitable option as it is a minimally invasive procedure and neck lymph nodes are easily accessible. This genotyping strategy has been
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, remain limited ( 3 , 4 , 5 ). Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) followed by cytological examination is the standard diagnostic procedure for patients with suspicious thyroid ultrasound features. The diagnoses of most FNA samples are classified into
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been observed. SAT is a thyroid inflammatory disease characterized by follicle damage that usually presents with anterior neck pain that may radiate to the ears and jaw ( 2 ). Other systemic and laboratory findings of SAT include low-grade fever
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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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ultrasonography for the evaluation of thyroid and nonthyroid neck diseases, the incidental discovery of previously unsuspected thyroid nodules/nonpalpable lesions has increased. An intrathyroidal thymus arises due to aberrant thymic migration during embryogenesis
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