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Introduction Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC) accounts for about 5–7% of all thyroid cancer and can occur in a hereditary (25%) or a sporadic form (75%) ( 1 ). According to the Next Generation Studies published in the last years ( 2 , 3
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Introduction Both solitary and multiple thyroid nodules (TN) are very commonly seen in clinical practice; this is important, because thyroid cancer occurs in approximately 5% of these nodules ( 1 ). Thyroid nodules can also indicate thyroid
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to PTL, DSVPTC had a higher incidence of lymph node metastasis (82.5% vs 30.8%, P < 0.001). There were no significant differences in radiation exposure history or thyroid cancer family history between the two groups ( P > 0.05). Figure 1
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Introduction Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common thyroid carcinoma, accounting for 84% of all thyroid cancers ( 1 ). The majority of PTCs have a low tumor growth rate and a favorable prognosis, but few of them are highly
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features but benign cytology) or presumably benign (nodules with no suspicious ultrasound features) and managed with active surveillance as long as there was no evidence of malignancy. The images had been acquired in our thyroid cancer unit at the time of
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). Interestingly, a higher percentage of RET exon-8 fMTC patients carried a second malignancy either at diagnosis or at follow-up (25.5% vs 6.3%, P = 0.009, Pearson’s χ 2 ): of the RET exon 8 carriers, 9/51 (17.6%) had papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and
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relationship between thyroid nodule and thyroid cancer ( 3 , 4 ). Thyroid nodules are usually accompanied by an increase in thyroglobulin (Tg) ( 5 , 6 ) and autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), especially Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) ( 7 , 8 ). Interestingly
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left confluence of spongiform thyroid nodules, with hypoechoic halos (U2). No cervical lymphadenopathy. Following discussion in the thyroid cancer multi-disciplinary team meeting, her left thyroid confluence was upgraded to U4 using British
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value, and low specificity, a rule-out test for thyroid cancer, with ‘benign’ or ‘suspicious’ test results ( 8 ); (ii) ThyroSeq v2 (ThyroSeq; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Sonic Healthcare, Austin, TX, USA), released in
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Introduction Medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTC) arise from the parafollicular C-cells of the thyroid and account for 5–10% of all thyroid cancers ( 1 , 2 ). MTCs are calcitonin-producing tumors that occur sporadically in 70–80% of the cases