Perioperative diagnostics of patients referred for radioiodine therapy of differentiated thyroid carcinoma: referral center experience in an iodine-insufficient country.
Friederike EilsbergerR Michael TuttleDamiano LibrizziAndreas PfestroffMarkus LusterFrederik A VerburgPublished in: Endocrine (2020)
There is room for improvement in perioperative diagnostics surrounding thyroid surgery, currently many procedures are performed without adequate information on potential presence of thyroid cancer. More frequent use of FNB might be able to decrease the number of unnecessary thyroid surgeries, increased use of frozen section might decrease the number of second operations and might contribute to less discordance between experts in the field of DTC treatment.
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