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Value of post-therapeutic 131I scintigraphy in stimulated serum thyroglobulin-negative patients with metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Authors :
Weijun Wei
Quan-Yong Luo
Chen-Tian Shen
Zhong-Ling Qiu
Hong-Jun Song
Source :
Endocrine. 51:283-290
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.

Abstract

Metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) with positive (131)I scintigraphy, but negative stimulated Tg (sTg) is relatively rare in clinical practice. The clinical characteristics of these patients were analyzed in the current study. A total of 3367 consecutive histologically proven DTC patients were analyzed retrospectively from January 2007 to June 2013. Tg negativity was defined as a sTg level of

Details

ISSN :
15590100 and 1355008X
Volume :
51
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Endocrine
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........31722c46ce76fd2a55810d015afe5b3e