Abstract

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Abstract: The European Group generally agrees with the American guidelines on the issue of the indications for additional surgery in patients with recurrence of medullary thyroid cancer. The discussions have been focused mainly on the postoperative follow-up, where some European experts feel that a postoperative calcitonin-stimulating test is of some importance in assigning the patient to the "Cured" or "Non-cured" group immediately after surgery. A part of the European group feels that a negative calcitonin-stimulating test might lead to a less intensive follow-up in the late follow-up of these patients.

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Title
Postoperative follow up in patients showing no evident residual disease - cut-offs for imaging/ intervention
Author
Minuto, Michele N; Miccoli, Paolo
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
1756-6614
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1316578988
Copyright
© 2013 Minuto and Miccoli; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.