Background: To investigate feasibility of utilizing enhanced neuromuscular blocking agents with selective recovery protocol during thyroid surgery with intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM).
Methods: Two-hundred and ninety patients were randomized into two groups: group A 0.3 mg/kg rocuronium and group B 0.
Background: Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is considered the most lethal thyroid cancer, with an overall 5-year survival rate below 10%. The FDA approved a BRAF/MEK inhibitor combination for the treatment of patients with BRAF-mutated ATC. However, effective therapeutic options for patients with wild-type BRAF are lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignant disease in children and adolescents. There is a trend of more conservative strategies including lobectomy and less radioactive iodine therapy (RAI) in multifocal papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) for its good survival outcome. The aim of our study was to define long-time outcome of a large cohort of multifocal PTC patients less than 20 years old treated at our institution.
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