Follow-up of patients with thyroid cancer and antithyroglobulin antibodies: a review for clinicians
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The follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and undetectable thyroglobulin (Tg) and Tg antibodies during ablation.
OBJECTIVE This retrospective study describes the role of serum thyroglobulin (Tg) in relation to tumor characteristics in the prediction of persistent/recurrent disease in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) with negative Tg at the time of ablation. DESIGN Between 1989 and 2006, 94 out of 346 (27%) patients with DTC had undetectable Tg at the time of 131I ablation and were inclu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endocrine-Related Cancer
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1351-0088,1479-6821
DOI: 10.1530/erc-21-0012