Publications by authors named "Azhar Mahrous"
Article Synopsis
- - The study analyzes the effectiveness of routine neck ultrasounds (US) in low-intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients who show no signs of disease after treatment, highlighting that recurrences mainly occur 2-8 years post-therapy.
- - Conducted with 93 patients across Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina, the research found that only 5.4% developed structural recurrences within a median follow-up of 5 years, while 20.4% had indeterminate findings that led to extra tests without significant results.
- - The conclusion suggests that for patients with no suspicious US results and low thyroglobulin levels, frequent ultrasounds yield mostly non-actionable findings rather than detecting serious
Background: Levothyroxine suppression of thyrotropin (TSH) is broadly applied to patients with thyroid cancer despite lack of consensus on the optimal TSH concentration necessary to reduce cancer recurrence while minimizing toxicity from subclinical hyperthyroidism. The objectives of this study were to examine the beneficial effects and the cardiac and skeletal toxicity of TSH suppression in well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC).
Methods: A total of 771 patients (569 women) at ATA low or intermediate risk of recurrence, with a mean age of 48±14 years, and undergoing total thyroidectomy at a tertiary care center between 2000 and 2006 were followed for a median of six and a half years.