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Sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma: clinical data from a university hospital [PDF]

Clinics, 2009
INTRODUCTION: Medullary thyroid carcinoma may occur in a sporadic (s-medullary thyroid carcinoma, 75%) or in a multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 form (MEN2, 25%).
Joya Emilie M. Correia-Deur, Rodrigo A. Toledo, Alice T. Imazawa, Delmar M. Lourenço Jr., Marilza C. L. Ezabella, Marcos R. Tavares, Sergio P. A. Toledo   +6 more
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Hypercalcitoninemia is not pathognomonic of medullary thyroid carcinoma [PDF]

Clinics, 2009
Hypercalcitoninemia has frequently been reported as a marker for medullary thyroid carcinoma. Currently, calcitonin measurements are mostly useful in the evaluation of tumor size and progression, and as an index of biochemical improvement of medullary ...
Sergio PA Toledo, Delmar M Lourenço Jr, Marcelo Augusto Santos, Marcos R Tavares, Rodrigo A Toledo, Joya Emilie de Menezes Correia-Deur   +5 more
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Procalcitonin as a postoperative marker in the follow-up of patients affected by medullary thyroid carcinoma

The International Journal of Biological Markers, 2018
Aim: Due to the limits of calcitonin, other markers are warranted to better manage medullary thyroid carcinoma patients, and procalcitonin has been reported as promising.
Pierpaolo Trimboli, Rosa Lauretta, Agnese Barnabei, Stefano Valabrega, Francesco Romanelli, Luca Giovanella, Marialuisa Appetecchia   +6 more
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Metachronous Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma in a Case of Medullary Carcinoma Thyroid [PDF]

Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2016
Medullary carcinoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma arise from the different cells. Simultaneous occurrence of both types is rare. Medullary carcinomas are characterised by calcitonin positivity.
Neelam Sood, Binit Kumar Khandelia
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Sporadic Medullary Microcarcinoma in a Young Patient - A Rare Case

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2010
Sporadic medullary microcarcinoma of thyroid is a rare disease detected usually in 0.15% of all thyroid malignancy. We report a case of sporadic medullary microcarcinoma (MMC) of thyroid in a 24 year old male presenting as solitary thyroid nodule.
Vijayshankar S, Amita K, Abhishek M, Manjunath D   +3 more
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Mixed Medullary-Follicular Carcinoma of the Thyroid [PDF]

Case Reports in Endocrinology, 2013
Introduction. Mixed medullary-follicular thyroid carcinoma is an uncommon tumor that consists of both follicular and parafollicular cells. Case. We report a 43-year-old woman with a palpable mass in the right side of the neck.
Maasumeh Tohidi, Gholamreza Pourbehi, Mohammad Bahmanyar, Seyed Sajjad Eghbali, Mohammadreza Kalantar Hormozi, Iraj Nabipour   +5 more
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Metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma: A case report

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2011
Medullary thyroid carcinoma accounts for 4% of thyroid carcinoma and originates from parafollicular cells, secreting calcitonin and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA).
Mitra Niafar, Shahram Dabiri, Farshid Bozorgi, Farid Niafar, Nasrin Gholami   +4 more
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Complications after medullary thyroid carcinoma surgery: multicentre study of the SQRTPA and EUROCRINE® databases

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
This study investigated postoperative complications after surgery for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in Europe. Hypoparathyroidism, recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy and bleeding requiring reoperation occurred in 170 (26·2 per cent), 62 (13·7 per cent) and 17 (2·6 per cent) patients respectively.
D.‐J. van Beek, M. Almquist, A. O. Bergenfelz, T. J. Musholt, E. Nordenström, on behalf of the EUROCRINE® Council, M. Almquist, M. Barczynski, L. Brunaud, T. Clerici, M. H. Hansen, M. Iacobone, Ö. Makay, F. F. Palazzo, N. Muñoz‐Pérez, M. Raffaelli, P. Riss, S. van Slycke, M. R. Vriens   +18 more
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Combined Detection of Preoperative Serum Calcitonin and Carcinoembryonic Antigen in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study. [PDF]

Health Care Sci
Compared with the detection of either marker alone, the combined detection of calcitonin (Ctn) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) improved the diagnostic accuracy for medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) but did not enhance the positive predictive value (PPV).
Yang Y, He Y, Lin B, Zheng Y, Deng X, Chen W, Ke Z, Qiu Y, Hong Y, Zhang J, Dong G, Qiao S, Xin Z, Li X, Xu T, Chen W, Chen X, Hou Y, Lai F, Long J, Zhang Z, Xu X, Liu Y.   +22 more
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External radiotherapy of thyroid cancer [PDF]

, 2001
Differentiated thyroid cancer comprises papillary, mixed papillary-follicular and follicular adenocarcinomas. They are mostly hormone-sensitive and respond to thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression. The standard treatment is total thyroidectomy. I-
Pollinger, B., Dühmke, Eckhart
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