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, which may create difficulties in treating this disease ( 3 ). Treatments for GD include oral antithyroid drugs, radioactive iodine therapy (RAI), and surgery, but each treatment regimen has the possibility of side effects ( 4 ). From this statement
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, lateral compartment dissection; RAI, radioactive iodine ablation; TT, total thyroidectomy. These data highlight the importance of deeper sections for a reliable diagnosis, mainly when invasion through the tumor capsule or vascular invasion are
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(1) Glucocorticoid pulse therapy of GO 2 (0) Other immunosuppressive treatment of GO 4 (1) Hemithyroidectomy 64 (15) Total thyroidectomy 37 (9) Radioactive iodine 127 (29) Data are expressed as
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behavior, is a loss of uptake and trapping of radioactive iodine, which means resistance to the best systemic therapy for thyroid cancer. The standard chemotherapy regimens approved for thyroid cancer have poor efficacy and relatively high toxicity compared
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, transsphenoidal surgery. Shimatsu ( 8 ) studied the dynamics of GH secretion in a patient with acromegaly combined with GD during treatment with ATD and radioactive iodine, and the result showed that spontaneous secretion of tumor GH was stimulated in
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Introduction Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common endocrine malignancy, accounting for 88% of thyroid carcinomas ( 1 , 2 ). Prognosis remains excellent and treatment, typically involving surgery followed by radioactive iodine