Some clinical, paraclinical characteristics of differentiated thyroid metastasis cancer patients after surgery and before using I-13
- Author:
Mai Trong Khoa
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
thyroid cancer
- MeSH:
Thyroid Neoplasms, Neoplasm Metastasis, Surgery, Idoxuridine
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2005;0(12):25-30
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A study on 70 thyroid cancer patients at the K Hospital and Bach Mai Hospital got the results: thyroid cancer in females was 3.37 times more than in males. Mean age was 38.813.3 years. Incidence of distance metastases was 5/70 (7.1%). Histology type: Papillary cell carcinoma was 68.6%, follicular cell carcinoma is 12.8% and mixed papillary-follicular was 18.6%. Incidence of hypothyroidism was 100% (70/70) after 4 – 6 weeks total thyroidectomy. Thyroid remnants after total thyroidectomy was 5.253.01ml. Thyroid uptake of I-131 before treatment was 6.85.2%. The median serum concentration of thymoglobulin was 105.289.3 mg/ml
