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ea0041ep1104 | Thyroid cancer | ECE2016

Thyroid cancer in hyperthyroid patients treated by surgery

Domingues A L , Rodrigues E , Saavedra A , Matos Lima L , Carvalho D

Introduction: The association of hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer (TC) is controversial with prevalences in the literature varying from 1.6 to 32.8%. The aim of this work was to evaluate the prevalence of TC in hyperthyroid patients submitted to surgery and to find differences between the tumors according to the type of hyperthyroidism.Material and methods: retrospective study to evaluate clinical and histopathological data of all hyperthyroid patients...