Thyroid No Surgery 101: Dr.Guttler’s Rules to Avoid Unnecessary Thyroid Surgery. Rules: Never go to surgery with just the first local pathology opinion. Why? The first opinion may be wrong for many reasons. It can set up a cascade of events...
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Thyroid No Surgery 101: Dr. Guttler’s Rules to Avoid Unnecessary Thyroid Surgery. When your primary tells you to skip seeing an endocrinologist or thyroidologist and go direct to have a biopsy and then to the surgeon say no and seek a...
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Thyroid Cancer That is Now a Benign Tumor 101: How do You Find Out The Needle Biopsy Result of Papillary Thyroid Cancer Could Be A Benign Tumor Instead ? Thyroid Cancer 101: Looks like Papillary thyroid Cancer but it is Not Cancer. The Scarlet...
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Thyroid Cancer 101: Looks like Papillary thyroid Cancer but it is Not Cancer. The Scarlet Letter Big C Tattoo to the Blue Letter b tattoo. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 31 rules to live by to avoid lifetime thyroid cancer diagnosis. 1.Thyroid...
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Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis 101: Bad Ultrasound Reports= Too Many Thyroid Biopsies. DR.Guttler’s comments on this article. 1. Bad thyroid ultrasound (US) radiology reports cause “confusion and discrepancy” among specialists about...
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Thyroid Nodules 101: Dr.Guttler’s 84 Rules on thyroid nodules The term thyroid nodule refers to an abnormal growth of thyroid cells that forms a lump within the thyroid gland. Although the vast majority of thyroid nodules are benign...
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Thyroid No Surgery for Benign Nodules 101: Mutation studies prevent 70% from going to surgery with an indeterminate biopsy diagnosis when the FNA needle washout mutation markers and classifiers are benign. A consultation with an expert in...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments about American Thyroid Association patient information on Thyroid fine needle biopsy of thyroid nodules. This is found on their website, www thyroid.org. I list what was not on this watered down version on what...
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Patient has a large mass in the lateral neck with normal thyroid examination and ultrasound. Bulging mass in the lateral right neck. FNA was negative for cells, but the needle washout for thyroglobulin was very positive at 11,049. N <1. The...
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Thyroid Cancer and Nodules: Online Second Opinions for Distant Travelers: How does it work? Do you need an ultrasound or thyroid biopsy? Do you need surgery? How much of the thyroid do they need to remove? Do You need radiation therapy after the...
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Thyroid Nodule/Cancer 101: Routine Second Opinion Saves Unnecessary Surgery. Dr.Guttler’s Opinion. 1.Follicular thyroid carcinoma cannot be distinguished reliably from benign follicular neoplasia by fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy...
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Thyroid Nodule Cancer 101: Second Opinion Should Routine. Dr. Guttler’s Opinion on this article. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology is important in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Some patients who had thyroid cancer at operation...
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