ea0090ep965 | Thyroid | ECE2023
Kazlauskiene Mintaute
, Zukauskaite Kristina
, Klimaitė Raimonda
, Kondrotienė Aistė
, Daukšienė Dalia
, Zilaitiene Birute
, Sabaliauskaite Rasa
, Dauksa Albertas
Introduction: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer (85%90%). Today Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the diagnostic tool for the evaluation of thyroid nodules because of its accuracy and cost-effectiveness, but FNAB also has limitations, as it is quite challenging to take a biopsy from a small thyroid nodule moreover FNAB diagnosis is doubtful in up to 20% of cases. Therefore, non-invasive biomarkers of PTC are needed.<p clas...