Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Previous studies have suggested that serum thyroglobulin (Tg) levels at the time of 131I remnant ablation just after thyroidectomy, could be a prognostic tumor marker in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate if serum preablation Tg in the earliest postoperative period could be useful for predicting persistence or recurrence of disease.Methods: This study was a retrospective...