Is there a place for measuring serum calcitonin prior to thyroidectomy in patients with a non-diagnostic thyroid nodule biopsy?

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the cytopathological Bethesda System classification of thyroid nodule fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in MTC patients and to assess the role of preoperative serum calcitonin (CT) levels in the investigation of this neoplasm in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) patien...

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Published in:	Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Main Authors:	Diego Henrique Andrade de Oliveira, Luiz Pierre Huning, Mariana Comiran Belim, Patrick Fontes Rodrigues, Hildebrando Massahiro Nagai, Hans Graf
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2021-01-01
Subjects:	Medullary thyroid cancer fine-needle aspiration biopsy calcitonin
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2359-39972021000100040&tlng=en