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Fig. 13.1 (a) Lymph node groups in the neck. From Fialkowski EA, Moley JF. Current approaches to medullary thyroid carcinoma, sporadic, and familial. (b) Specimen from a patient following central…

Fig. 19.1 A 40-year-old female with papillary thyroid carcinoma and positive nodal metastases on dissection. TBI (a) with SPECT (b) showing uptake in the neck, which localizes to the thyroid…

Fig. 9.1 Ultrasound, right transverse Fig. 9.2 Ultrasound, lymph node Fig. 9.3 CT showing right thyroid mass Fig. 9.4 CT He underwent a total thyroidectomy, central neck dissection, and right…

Fig. 17.1 Size distribution of maximal tumor diameter in 4138 adult PTC patients consecutively treated at Mayo during 1935–2014 and demonstrating that one-third of these patients during the eight decades…

Surveillance method Description Advantages/benefits Disadvantages/limitations Thyroglobulin (Tg) Protein product of thyroid follicular cells Most sensitive method for detecting the presence of disease, particularly after stimulation with rhTSH or THW Wide…

External Beam Radiotherapy External beam radiotherapy is a useful option in advanced DTC, particularly when the disease is iodine nonavid. It is most commonly used to treat surgically unresectable locoregional…

  Implied risk of malignancy according to TBSRTC (%) [1] Estimated risk based on reported studies (%) [5] Atypia of unknown significance/follicular lesion of unknown significance (AUS/FLUS) 5–15% 6–48% Follicular…

Fig. 14.1 Anatomical boundaries of the central neck compartment Within the central compartment, there are several groups of lymph nodes that are resected during a central compartment dissection. The prelaryngeal…

Fig. 1.1 Incidence by histology of thyroid cancer and mortality of thyroid cancer, 1975–2011. Data are from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program (www.​seer.​cancer.​gov) SEER*Stat Database: Incidence—SEER 9…