ea0026p465 | Thyroid cancer | ECE2011
Boi F
, Borghero A
, Lai M L
, Casula S
, Maurelli I
, Calo P G
, Nicolosi A
, Mariotti S
Introduction: The association between autoimmune thyroid diseases and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is still controversial and it is based only on retrospective analyses.Objective: Aim of the present research was to evaluate this association in a prospective study of unselected consecutive thyroid nodules (TN) submitted to fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), anti-thyroid autoantibodies (ATA) measurement and histological analyses of surgical sampl...