Preoperative Serum Calcitonin and Its Correlation with Extent of Lymph Node Metastasis in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

The optimal initial surgical extent for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) remains controversial. Previous studies on serum calcitonin are limited to reporting the calcitonin threshold according to anatomical disease burden. Here, we evaluated whether preoperative calcitonin levels can be used to pre...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cancers 2020-10, Vol.12 (10), p.2894
Hauptverfasser:	Park, Hyunju, Park, Jun, Choi, Min Sun, Kim, Jinyoung, Kim, Hosu, Shin, Jung Hee, Kim, Jung-Han, Kim, Jee Soo, Kim, Sun Wook, Chung, Jae Hoon, Kim, Tae Hyuk
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biomarkers Calcitonin Decision making Dissection Health aspects Lymph nodes Lymphatic system Metastases Metastasis Patients Physiological aspects Regression analysis Surgery Thyroid cancer Thyroid carcinoma Ultrasonic imaging
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