Publications by authors named "Charalambos Stavrianos"
Article Synopsis
- The study focused on small medullary thyroid carcinomas (smallMTCs) that are 1.5 cm or smaller, examining how tumor size influences patient outcomes and clinical behavior over time.
- It included data from 128 patients and found that larger tumors (over 1 cm) were linked to worse prognosis, higher rates of invasion, and lower cure rates compared to smaller tumors.
- The research concluded that while tumor size is important, post-operative calcitonin levels are a stronger predictor of disease progression, indicating that higher calcitonin levels correlate with continued disease activity.
Objective: Environmental factors are involved in goiter development. An increased number of goitrous patients were identified among outpatients in Gyrocaster, a mountainous region in Southwestern Albania. We examined possible associations of thyroid enlargement with nutritional factors.
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