Patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis are not at higher risk for developing clinically overt thyroid cancer: a 10-year follow-up study.

Mario RotondiGloria GroppelliLaura CroceFrancesco LatrofaGiuseppe AnconaFrancesca CoperchiniDaniela PasqualiCarlo CappelliAlessandro FugazzaValeria GuazzoniGiorgio RadettiLuca Chiovato

Published in: European journal of endocrinology (2020)

In our series of CAT patients, the appearance of new thyroid-nodules was frequent, but none of them were found to be malignant. The presence of CAT appears to be associated with a negligible risk of developing clinically overt DTC.

Keyphrases

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