Association of obesity with the clinicopathological features of thyroid cancer in a large, operative population: A retrospective case-control study
We aimed to investigate the association between excess body mass index (BMI) and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in an operative population, and the impact of higher BMI on clinicopathological aggressiveness of PTC.Charts of 10,844 consecutive patients with thyroid nodules undergoing partial or total...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Medicine (Baltimore) 2019-12, Vol.98 (50), p.e18213-e18213 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We aimed to investigate the association between excess body mass index (BMI) and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in an operative population, and the impact of higher BMI on clinicopathological aggressiveness of PTC.Charts of 10,844 consecutive patients with thyroid nodules undergoing partial or total thyroidectomy between 1993 and 2015 were reviewed. Patients diagnosed with PTC were stratified in 4 groups: BMI |
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ISSN: | 0025-7974 1536-5964 |
DOI: | 10.1097/MD.0000000000018213 |