CLINICAL THYROIDOLOGY
JUNE 2010
VOLUME 22 ISSUE 6
Editor: Ernest L. Mazzaferri, MD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORS’ COMMENTS
Clinical Thyroidology Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2010
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EDITORS’ CHOICE — THYROID HORMONE REPLACEMENT IN PREGNANCY Adding two additional tablets of levothyroxine per week, when instituted immediately upon confirmation of pregnancy to women with known hypothyroidism significantly reduces the risk of maternal hypothyroidism throughout pregnancy
Clinical Thyroidology Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2010
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EDITORS’ CHOICE — MATERNAL THYROID FUNCTION DURING GESTATION Pregnant women with TSH levels higher than 2.5 IU/L during the end of gestation are at risk for breech presentation, and obstetrical complications.
Clinical Thyroidology Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2010
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PAPILLARY MICROCARCINOMA Central neck compartment lymph-node-metastases in papillary thyroid carcinoma can be effectively managed with prophylactic CLND, without a high complication rate and with very few recurrences
Clinical Thyroidology Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2010
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LYMPH-NODE SURGERY FOR PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER Persistent cervical PTC lymph-node metastases may require several surgical resections to achieve biochemical or clinical evidence of disease-free outcome
Clinical Thyroidology Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2010
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THYROID CANCER Cancer-specific survival is significantly improved by total thyroidectomy and by a trend for 131I RRA, but not for disease-free recurrence
Clinical Thyroidology Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2010
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