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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Huvudupphovsmän: Hyunju Park, Jun Park, Min Sun Choi, Jinyoung Kim, Hosu Kim, Jung Hee Shin, Jung-Han Kim, Jee Soo Kim, Sun Wook Kim, Jae Hoon Chung, Tae Hyuk Kim
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Serie:Cancers
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medullary thyroid carcinoma
calcitonin
lymph nodes
lymph node excision
clinical decision-making
Länkar:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/12/10/2894
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