BACKGROUND During the detection of neck recurrence in patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC), sometimes it is difficult to distinguish metastatic from inflammatory neck lymph nodes. The measurement of serum thyroglobulin (sTg) under thyroid hormone suppression therapy the presence of serum thyroglobulin antibodies (sAbTg), the diagnostic whole body scan and cytology can give false nega...

Introduction:Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) follow-up after thyroidectomy and radioiodine-ablation is performed mainly by thyroglobulin (Tg), diagnostic iodine-131 whole body scan (DxWBS) and sonography. Some patients with undetectable Tg have thyroid-bed uptake after ablation in whom decision making regarding the need for retreatment is still controversial. Me...

come. In both models, the only significant associations observable for men were between GC3 and UFF ( , 3.7; P 0.01) and GC3 and UFF UFE ( , 10.3; P 0.01). In women, in addition to a priori adjusted GC3, nitrogen also showed an association with UFF, resulting in a total explained variation of 47% (Table 1) for UFF alone. However, with UFF UFE as the outcome, total R in women increased to 0.72 a...

BACKGROUND We present our ongoing experience in the use of postsurgical stimulated serum thyroglobulin (Stim-Tg) to assist in radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA) decision-making. METHODS Patients with low-risk well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) with undetectable anti-Tg antibodies were prospectively followed after total thyroidectomy and therapeutic central compartment neck dissectio...