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- Title
Serum thyroglobulin improves the sensitivity of the McGill Thyroid Nodule Score for well-differentiated thyroid cancer.
- Authors
Scheffler, Patrick; Forest, Veronique I; Leboeuf, Rebecca; Florea, Anca V; Tamilia, Michael; Sands, Noah B; Hier, Michael P; Mlynarek, Alexander M; Payne, Richard J
- Abstract
The McGill Thyroid Nodule Score (MTNS) is a scoring system devised to help physicians to assess the preoperative risk that a thyroid nodule is malignant. It uses 22 different known risk factors for thyroid cancer (radiation exposure, microcalcifications on ultrasound, positive HBME-1 stain on biopsy, etc.) and attributes a percentage risk that the nodule is malignant. Recently, preoperative thyroglobulin (Tg) levels have been shown to correlate with the risk of malignancy. The aim of this study was to incorporate Tg levels into the already established MTNS.
- Publication
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association, 2014, Vol 24, Issue 5, p852
- ISSN
1557-9077
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1089/thy.2013.0191