Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroglobulin is generally a reliable marker of recurrent disease in patients with well differentiated thyroid carcinoma. However, some patients have recurrent disease but no increase in serum thyroglobulin. In order to try to identify patients who might recur with no such sign of the disease, we preoperatively assessed thyroglobulin levels in 185 consecutive patients scheduled for primary treatment for well differentiated thyroid carcinoma from June 1997 to May 2002 at the He...