Wanying Shi, Miao Wang, Liyan Dong, Fuxin Li, Xianghui He, Xue Li, Danyang Sun, Xiangqian Zheng, Qiang Jia, Jian Tan, Wei Zheng, Ning Li, Ke Xu, Zhaowei Meng
AIMS: Extrathyroidal extension (ETE) is a determined factor of T3 and T4 stage of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) in American Joint Committee on Cancer. We aimed to compare clinical outcomes between different extent of ETE according to tumor size. METHODS: Patients diagnosed with DTC were collected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database from 2004 to 2015. They were categorized into two groups by presence of lymph node metastases (LNM) or distant metastases (DM): group A: no presence of LNM and DM, and group B: presence of LNM or DM...
July 14, 2023: Nuclear Medicine Communications