RATIONALE FOR THE APPLICATION OF CALCITONIN LEVEL IN THE EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MEDULLARY THYROID CANCER.

Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of the basal calcitonin (CTb) determination in the early postoperative period to predict the possible recurrence (persistence) of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC).

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of the treatment results in 194 patients with MTC (148 (76.3%) primary - group 1 and 46 (23.

PREDICTORS OF MULTIFOCAL PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER. DO THEY EXIST?

Unlabelled: The aim of this study is to analyze and identify the main predictors that may indicate multifocal growth of PTC.

Materials And Methods: The main and control groups included patients with the category of malignant multifocal process T1-3mN0Mx (n=109) and unifocal T1-T3N0Mx (n=50) respectively, who underwent thyroidectomy with lymphadenectomy.Ultrasound characteristics of the nodes, tissue changes of the thyroid gland were taken into account.