Yujie Ren
Yujie Ren
Endocrine and Diabetes Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Xue Han
Xue Han
Endocrine and Diabetes Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Yujiang Li
Yujiang Li
Endocrine and Diabetes Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Guofang Chen
Guofang Chen
Endocrine and Diabetes Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Key Laboratory of TCM Syndrome and Treatment of Yingbing (Thyroid Disease) of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Key Laboratory of TCM Syndrome and Treatment of Yingbing (Thyroid Disease) of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Lin Jiang
Lin Jiang
Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Chao Liu
Chao Liu
Endocrine and Diabetes Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Key Laboratory of TCM Syndrome and Treatment of Yingbing (Thyroid Disease) of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Key Laboratory of TCM Syndrome and Treatment of Yingbing (Thyroid Disease) of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Shuhang Xu
Shuhang Xu
Endocrine and Diabetes Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Introduction With the widespread application of ultrasonography in recent decades ( 1 ), the prevalence of thyroid cancer has gradually risen to the 11th and 5th ranks in all cancers and those in women, respectively ( 2 ). Papillary thyroid
David T Broome
David T Broome
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Gauri B Gadre
Gauri B Gadre
Department of Internal Medicine, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, USA
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Ehsan Fayazzadeh
Ehsan Fayazzadeh
Department of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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James F Bena
James F Bena
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Christian Nasr
Christian Nasr
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Introduction Thyroid cancer is currently the third fastest rising cancer diagnosis in the United States. The National Cancer Institute indicates that there were 52,070 new cases of thyroid cancer diagnosed in 2019 and an estimated 52,890 newly
Lauren E Henke
Lauren E Henke
Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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John D Pfeifer
John D Pfeifer
Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Thomas J Baranski
Thomas J Baranski
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Todd DeWees
Todd DeWees
Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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Perry W Grigsby
Perry W Grigsby
Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Protection Office at Washington University School of Medicine, including retrospective chart review (protocol number 201010705) with waiver of consent. Records of 1712 patients with invasive thyroid cancer who were referred to the Department of Radiation
Aleksandra Kukulska
Aleksandra Kukulska
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
Radiotherapy Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Radiotherapy Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Jolanta Krajewska
Jolanta Krajewska
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Zofia Kolosza
Zofia Kolosza
Department of Epidemiology and Silesia Cancer Registry, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Ewa Paliczka-Cieslik
Ewa Paliczka-Cieslik
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Aleksandra Kropinska
Aleksandra Kropinska
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Agnieszka Pawlaczek
Agnieszka Pawlaczek
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Zbigniew Puch
Zbigniew Puch
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Kornelia Ficek
Kornelia Ficek
Radiotherapy Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Teresa Lisik
Teresa Lisik
Radiotherapy Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Dorota Sygula
Dorota Sygula
Radiotherapy Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Zbigniew Wygoda
Zbigniew Wygoda
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Jozef Roskosz
Jozef Roskosz
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Jerzy Wydmanski
Jerzy Wydmanski
Radiotherapy Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Barbara Jarzab
Barbara Jarzab
Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Introduction Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rarely diagnosed malignant neoplasm arising from C cells and constitutes only 5% of all thyroid cancers. MTC may occur as a sporadic disease or as part of hereditary multiple endocrine
Line Tang Møllehave
Line Tang Møllehave
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Marie Holm Eliasen
Marie Holm Eliasen
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Ieva Strēle
Ieva Strēle
The Institute of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
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Allan Linneberg
Allan Linneberg
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes
Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes
Nuclear Medicine Department, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Ludmila B Ivanova
Ludmila B Ivanova
Faculty of Medicine, Sofia University St. Kl. Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Zvonko Kusić
Zvonko Kusić
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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Iris Erlund
Iris Erlund
Department of Government Services, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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Till Ittermann
Till Ittermann
Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Endre V Nagy
Endre V Nagy
Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Ingibjorg Gunnarsdottir
Ingibjorg Gunnarsdottir
Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Department of Clinical Nutrition, Landspitali-National University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Department of Clinical Nutrition, Landspitali-National University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Jonathan Eli Arbelle
Jonathan Eli Arbelle
Division of Medicine, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
Goldman School of Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Goldman School of Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Aaron Milton Troen
Aaron Milton Troen
The Institute of Biochemistry Food Science and Nutrition, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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Valdis Pīrāgs
Valdis Pīrāgs
Internal Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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Lisbeth Dahl
Lisbeth Dahl
Seafood, Nutrition and Environmental State, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway
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Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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Malgorzata Trofimiuk-Müldner
Malgorzata Trofimiuk-Müldner
Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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João Jacome de Castro
João Jacome de Castro
Endocrine Department, Armed Forces Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
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Mafalda Marcelino
Mafalda Marcelino
Endocrine Department, Armed Forces Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
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Simona Gaberšček
Simona Gaberšček
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Katja Zaltel
Katja Zaltel
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Manuel Puig-Domingo
Manuel Puig-Domingo
Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Germans Trias Research Institute and Hospital, Badalona, Spain
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Lluis Vila
Lluis Vila
Endocrinology and Nutrition Service, Hospital Moisés Broggi, Sant Juan Despi, Barcelona, Spain
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Sofia Manousou
Sofia Manousou
Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Medicine, Gothenburg, Sweden
Frölunda Specialist Hospital, Västra Frölunda, Sweden
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Frölunda Specialist Hospital, Västra Frölunda, Sweden
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Helena Filipsson Nyström
Helena Filipsson Nyström
Department of Endocrinology, Specialist Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Wallenberg Centre of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Wallenberg Centre of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Michael Bruce Zimmermann
Michael Bruce Zimmermann
Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Karen R Mullan
Karen R Mullan
Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK
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Jayne Valerie Woodside
Jayne Valerie Woodside
Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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Henry Völzke
Henry Völzke
Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Betina Heinsbæk Thuesen
Betina Heinsbæk Thuesen
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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-population, or data in 10-year age intervals. Specific diagnoses and treatments requested were: Diagnoses: Annual number of persons diagnosed with thyroid cancer (ICD-10: C73), congenital iodine-deficiency syndrome (ICD-10: E00), iodine
Weidi Wang
Weidi Wang
Department of Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Lingjun Kong
Lingjun Kong
Department of Thyroid and Breast, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Hongkun Guo
Hongkun Guo
Department of Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Xiangjin Chen
Xiangjin Chen
Department of Thyroid and Breast, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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patients. Studies were excluded if (i) they were case reports, reviews, conference abstracts, and posters; (ii) patients with other pathologic types of thyroid carcinoma or preoperatively bilateral thyroid cancer; (iii) patients who had undergone head and
Irfan Vardarli
Irfan Vardarli
Department of Medicine I, Klinikum Vest, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Recklinghausen, Academic Teaching Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Recklinghausen, Germany
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Manuel Weber
Manuel Weber
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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Frank Weidemann
Frank Weidemann
Department of Medicine I, Klinikum Vest, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Recklinghausen, Academic Teaching Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Recklinghausen, Germany
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Dagmar Führer
Dagmar Führer
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Clinical Chemistry – Division of Laboratory Research; Endocrine Tumor Center at WTZ/Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Ken Herrmann
Ken Herrmann
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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Rainer Görges
Rainer Görges
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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Introduction Calcitonin (Ctn) is secreted by the C-cells of the thyroid ( 1 ) and is a valuable tumor marker in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) ( 2 ). Medullary thyroid cancer, originated from the C-cells ( 3 ), occurs rarely
Huy Gia Vuong
Huy Gia Vuong
Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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Nguyen Phuoc Long
Nguyen Phuoc Long
Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Nguyen Hoang Anh
Nguyen Hoang Anh
School of Medicine, Viet Nam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Tran Diem Nghi
Tran Diem Nghi
School of Medicine, Viet Nam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Mai Van Hieu
Mai Van Hieu
School of Medicine, Viet Nam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Le Phi Hung
Le Phi Hung
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Tadao Nakazawa
Tadao Nakazawa
Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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Ryohei Katoh
Ryohei Katoh
Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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Tetsuo Kondo
Tetsuo Kondo
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Introduction Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer, and its incidence has been steadily increasing over the last few decades ( 1 ). There are several subtypes of thyroid carcinoma: papillary, follicular, poorly differentiated
Louise Vølund Larsen
Louise Vølund Larsen
Department of ORL Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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Delphine Mirebeau-Prunier
Delphine Mirebeau-Prunier
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Department of Breast & Endocrine Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Higashinagoya National Hospital
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Cristina Alvarez-Escola
Cristina Alvarez-Escola
Endocrinology and Nutrition Department, University Hospital ‘La Paz’, Madrid, Spain
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Kornelia Hasse-Lazar
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Simona Censi
Simona Censi
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Luciana A Castroneves
Luciana A Castroneves
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Department of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Minoru Kihara
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Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
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Kiyomi Horiuchi
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Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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AP-HP, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire Commun de Biologie et Génétique Moléculaires, Hôpital St Antoine & INSERM CRSA, Paris, France
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Fédération d’Endocrinologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, France
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Réseau TenGen, Marseille, France
Service de Génétique, AP-HP, Hôpital européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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Université de Paris, PARCC, INSERM, Paris, France
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Pascal Pigny
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Réseau TenGen, Marseille, France
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Réseau TenGen, Marseille, France
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Nelson Wohllk
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Endocrine Section, Hospital del Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Department of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Charis Eng
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Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute and Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Berna Imge Aydogan
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Department of Endocrinology And Metabolic Diseases, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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Department of Research Studies & Additional Projects, Cancer Patients Aid Association, Dr. Vithaldas Parmar Research & Medical Centre, Worli, Mumbai, India
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Frederic Castinetti
Frederic Castinetti
Aix-Marseille Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1251, Marseille Medical Genetics (MMG), Marseille, France
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HAS-SE Momentum Hereditary Endocrine Tumors Research Group, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Damijan Bergant
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Department of Surgical Oncology, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Thera P Links
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Department of Hypertension, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
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Ana O Hoff
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Caterina Mian
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Endocrinology Unit, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Trisha Dwight
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Barbara Jarzab
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Hartmut P H Neumann
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Section for Preventive Medicine, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Mercedes Robledo
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Hereditary Endocrine Cancer Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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Department of Endocrine Surgery, Noguchi Thyroid Clinic and Hospital Foundation, Beppu, Oita, Japan
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Réseau TenGen, Marseille, France
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Zhenzhen Wang
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Xiangying Zhu
Xiangying Zhu
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Xiaohui Yu
Xiaohui Yu
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Haixia Guan
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Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Lei Zhao
Lei Zhao
Department of Ultrasonography, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Yixia Zhang
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Department of Ultrasonography, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Liang Sang
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Yuchen Han
Yuchen Han
Department of Pathology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Yushu Li
Yushu Li
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Zhongyan Shan
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Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Weiping Teng
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Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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). The ‘2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer’ (referred to as the ATA classification) ( 26 ) more comprehensively defines the ultrasound features and risk
