BACKGROUND The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer in patients undergoing surgery for presumed benign thyroid disease (incidental thyroid cancer) is not negligible. The purpose of this study was to verify if incidental thyroid cancers have a different clinical course than the clinically evident thyroid cancer. METHODS A group of patients with incidental thyroid cancer (n = 95) has been...

Received 4/8/2004; revised 5/20/2004; accepted 5/28/2004. For correspondence or reprints contact: Ya-Wen Chuang, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, 100 Tzyou 1st Road, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886) 7-3121101 ext. 7153, Fax: (886)7-3117521, E-mail: [email protected] Background: The aim of this retrospective study is to eva...

BACKGROUND Thyroid nodules are a common clinical problem, and differentiated thyroid cancer is becoming increasingly prevalent. Since the publication of the American Thyroid Association's guidelines for the management of these disorders was published in 2006, a large amount of new information has become available, prompting a revision of the guidelines. METHODS Relevant articles through Decem...

Histologic variants (tall cell, columnar cell, diffuse sclerosing) of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) have a worse prognosis, as do more invasive variants of follicular type. Intermediate risk of recurrence includes (1) microscopic invasion of tumor into the perithyroidal soft tissues, (2) cervical lymph node metastases, (3) I-131 uptake outside the thyroid bed, (4) aggressive histology, or (5) ...

We want to thank the editors of Endocrinology and Metabolism for giving us the opportunity to publish our work, and have provided the following response to Prof. Jung’s letter. At present, thyroid nodules are common clinical problem. The prevalence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is dramatically increasing and a large number of clinical studies have been conducted. The American Thyroid A...

The name thyroid gland, in English, is derived from the Latin glandula thyreoidea, meaning shield-shaped gland, named by Thomas Warton in 1656 [1]. As the first endocrine gland to develop embryologically [2], it possesses important functions from fetal development until death. Embryologically, the development of the thyroid gland begins in the fourth week of development as a depression and epit...

The number of thyroid cancers is increasing. Standard treatment usually includes primary surgery, thyroid-stimulating hormone suppressive therapy, and ablation of the thyroid remnant with radioactive iodine (RAI). Despite the generally good prognosis of thyroid carcinoma, about 5% of patients will develop metastatic disease, which fails to respond to RAI, exhibiting a more aggressive behavior. ...

Background: Interspecific hybrid male sterility is a common occurrence in nature and plays vital role species reproductive isolation. Recently several studies have suggested decline the quality of semen. About half infertile causes are men; rate increases couples. Some therapy for sterility; medication, surgery, or assisted technology (ART). Medicinal effects not expected, surgical cases locali...

Background: The follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancers is based on neck ultrasonography and serum thyroglobulin assay (Tg), during l-T4 therapy and after recombinant human TSH administration; this test appears quite expensive, considering that only a small percentage of patients with undetectable Tg on TSH suppression therapy shows a response after TSH stimulation. Objectives: The aim of o...

Objectives: In restorative dentistry, it is essential to estimate the amount of remnant tooth structure after caries removal to make the best treatment plan. The present study was aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between the real thickness of remnant dentin under carious lesion and the radiographical measurement from photostimulable phosphor plates (PSPs). Methods: a whole numb...