ea0011p530 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ECE2006
Faggiano AF
, Ferolla PF
, Pezzullo LC
, Chiofalo MC
, Milone FM
, Mozzillo NM
, Scarpelli GS
, Santeusanio FS
, Angeletti GA
, Lombardi GL
, Colao AC
Surgical treatment is the first therapeutic option in patients affected with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). However, cure-rates are often low due to the high frequency of loco-regional metastases and recurrences. Therefore, post-operative hyper-calcitoninemia is a common feature in CMT. Despite these findings, traditional imaging techniques are often unable to localize tumour foci. In the last years the availability of new morpho-functional techniques might offer new chanc...