Should patients with remnants from thyroid microcarcinoma really not be treated with iodine-131 ablation?(430 views) Gallicchio R, Giacomobono S, Capacchione D, Nardelli A, Barbato F, Nappi A, Pellegrino T, Storto G
Istituto di Ricovero e Cura A Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Basilicata (CROB), Via P. Pio 1, 85028 Rionero in Vulture, Italy
Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy
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Dean, D. S., Hay, I. D., Prognostic indicators in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (2000) Cancer Control, 7, pp. 229-239. , 10832109 1: STN: 280: DC%2BD3c3ptlGhtw%3D%3D
Schlumberger, M. J., Diagnostic follow-up of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma: Historical perspective and current status (1999) J. Endocrinol. Invest., 22, pp. 3-7. , 10726999 1: STN: 280: DC%2BD3c7ovFGgsQ%3D%3D
Hay, I. D., Thompson, G. B., Grant, C. S., Bergstralh, E. J., Dvorak, C. E., Gorman, C. A., Papillary thyroid carcinoma managed at the Mayo Clinic during six decades (1940-1999): Temporal trends in initial therapy and long-term outcome in 2444 consecutively treated patients (2002) World J. Surg., 26, pp. 879-885. , 12016468 10. 1007/s00268-002-6612-1
Degroot, L. J., Kaplan, E. L., McCormick, M., Straus, F. H., Natural history, treatment, and course of papillary thyroid carcinoma (1990) J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 71, pp. 414-424. , 2380337 10. 1210/jcem-71-2-414 1: STN: 280: DyaK3czjvVeisQ%3D%3D
Mazzaferri, E. L., Thyroid remnant 131I ablation for papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma (1997) Thyroid, 7, pp. 265-271. , 9133698 10. 1089/thy. 1997. 7. 265 1: STN: 280: DyaK2s3nvFWqsg%3D%3D
Cooper, D. S., Doherty, G. M., Haugen, B. R., Kloos, R. T., Lee, S. L., Mandel, S. J., Revised American Thyroid Association management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer (2009) Thyroid, 19, pp. 1167-1214. , American Thyroid Association (ATA) Guidelines Taskforce on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer et al. 19860577 10. 1089/thy. 2009. 0110
Pelizzo, M. R., Boschin, I. M., Toniato, A., Piotto, A., Bernante, P., Pagetta, C., Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC): Prognostic factors, management and outcome in 403 patients (2006) Eur. J. Surg. Oncol., 32, pp. 1144-1148. , 16872798 10. 1016/j. ejso. 2006. 07. 001 1: STN: 280: DC%2BD28novVeruw%3D%3D
Ross, D. S., Litofsky, D., Ain, K. B., Bigos, T., Brierley, J. D., Cooper, D. S., Recurrence after treatment of micropapillary thyroid cancer (2009) Thyroid, 19, pp. 1043-1048. , 19772419 10. 1089/thy. 2008. 0407
Samaan, N. A., Schultz, P. N., Hickey, R. C., Goepfert, H., Haynie, T. P., Johnston, D. A., The results of various modalities of treatment of well differentiated thyroid carcinomas: A retrospective review of 1599 patients (1992) J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 75, pp. 714-720. , 1517360 10. 1210/jc. 75. 3. 714 1: STN: 280: DyaK38zovVenug%3D%3D
Sawka, A. M., Thephamongkhol, K., Brouwers, M., Thabane, L., Browman, G., Gerstein, H. C., Clinical review 170: A systematic review and metaanalysis of the effectiveness of radioactive iodine remnant ablation for well-differentiated thyroid cancer (2004) J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 89, pp. 3668-3676. , 15292285 10. 1210/jc. 2003-031167 1: CAS: 528: DC%2BD2cXmslKmsbc%3D
McDougall, I. R., Hay, I. D., ATA Guidelines: Do patients with stage i thyroid cancer benefit from (131) I? (2007) Thyroid, 17, pp. 595-596. , 17614785 10. 1089/thy. 2007. 0203
Hay, I. D., Grant, C. S., Van Heerden, J. A., Goellner, J. R., Ebersold, J. R., Bergstralh, E. J., Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: A study of 535 cases observed in a 50-year period (1992) Surgery, 112, pp. 1139-1146. , 1455316 1: STN: 280: DyaK3s%2FovVWltQ%3D%3D
Kim, E. Y., Kim, W. G., Kim, W. B., Kim, T. Y., Ryu, J. S., Gong, G., Clinical outcomes of persistent radioiodine uptake in the neck shown by diagnostic whole body scan in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after initial surgery and remnant ablation (2010) Clin. Endocrinol., 73, pp. 257-263
Wong, K. K., Zarzhevsky, N., Cahill, J. M., Frey, K. A., Avram, A. M., Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET-CT imaging of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (2009) Br. J. Radiol., 82, pp. 860-876. , 19433487 10. 1259/bjr/25645894 1: STN: 280: DC%2BD1MnislCntw%3D%3D
Lang, B. H., Lo, C. Y., Chan, W. F., Lam, K. Y., Wan, K. Y., Prognostic factors in papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma: Their implications for cancer staging (2007) Ann. Surg. Oncol., 14, pp. 730-738. , 17103065 10. 1245/s10434-006-9207-5
Garc a-Pascual, L., Balsells, M., Fabbi, M., Pozo, C. D., Valverde, M. T., Casalots, J., Prognostic factors and follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma with false negative or nondiagnostic FNAC before surgery. Comparison with a control group (2011) Endocrine, 40, pp. 423-431. , 21541652 10. 1007/s12020-011-9479-9
Hay, I. D., Hutchinson, M. E., Gonzalez-Losada, T., McIver, B., Reinalda, M. E., Grant, C. S., Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: A study of 900 cases observed in a 60-year period (2009) Surgery, 144, pp. 980-987. , 10. 1016/j. surg. 2008. 08. 035
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Should patients with remnants from thyroid microcarcinoma really not be treated with iodine-131 ablation?