Publications by authors named "Melanie Rosmarin"
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
Purpose: To comparatively assess the performance of three sonographic classification systems, American Thyroid Association (ATA), the American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (ACR TI-RADS), and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)/American College of Endocrinology (ACE)/Associazione Medici Endocrinologi (AME) in identifying malignant nodules in an elderly population.
Methods: Cross-sectional study of patients referred for fine needle aspiration biopsy in an academic center for the elderly. One nodule/patient was considered.
Objective: The reclassification of the risk according to the response to the initial treatment makes the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) vary in each individual. As the influence of age on this diagnostic strategy is unknown, we have decided to assess it in adults who are over 60 years of age.
Subjects And Methods: Ninety patients with DTC above 60 years old were enrolled, with total thyroidectomy plus radioiodine ablation, negative anti-thyroglobulin antibodies, follow-up ≥ 2 years and with clinical and pathological information to classify the risk of recurrence according to ATA (American Thyroid Association) and reclassify based on the response to initial therapy according to MSKCC (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).
Although hypothyroidism is associated with an increased prevalence of psychiatric manifestations, myxedema madness is rarely observed. We report the case of a 62-year-old woman with no prior history of psychiatric disorders, who presented to the emergency department with psychomotor agitation 6 weeks after total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer. Serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) on admission was 62.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective. Ultrasonographic characteristics are associated with thyroid malignancy. Our aim was to compare the diagnostic value of ultrasound features in the detection of thyroid malignancy in both solid and mixed nodules.
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