Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: 1.-Characterization of patients with tall cell variant papillary thyroid carcinoma (TCV-PTC) at diagnosis (Dx) compared to patients with classic papillary thyroid carcinoma (c-PTC);2.-Evaluation of response to therapy (RT) in the (TCV-PTC) cohortExperimental design: Retrospective observational studyMaterials and methods: Patients submitted to surgery for PTC in our institution since 2010 were eval...

Introduction: PTC patients with lymph node (LN) metastases of greater volume (in>5 LN and/or with larger metastases >5mm, hereinafter N1>5) usually receive radioiodine (RAI). Some guidelines suggest carrying out an evaluation of the response to surgical treatment (RST), recommending lower RAI dose (activity) in patients with good RST.Objectives: a)To evaluate the RST in patients with PTC and N1>5 b)To evaluate the disease-free-survival (D...