Thyroid Cancer 101: Persistence of Thyroglobulin Antibody (TG AB ) for Years Not A Sign of Recurrence. Martone A et al Thyroid 28(7) 2018 p.871 Dr.Guttler’s comments on this article. It takes years for the TGAB to decline in patients with...
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Thyroid Cancer 101: After 3 Surgeries,2 Radioiodine Treatments, and a New Lymph Node is Found to be Thyroid Cancer Again! This abnormal lymph node was biopsied and needle wash for thyroglobulin proved she had another neck recurrence.She had 2...
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Santa Monica Thyroid Center’s Dr.Richard Guttler uses Dr.Carole Spencer’s USC Thyroid Laboratory Exclusively. When I stopped doing thyroid tests in my office under her supervision, I closed my thyroid lab and use her thyroid lab at...
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Thyroid Cancer 101: 9 steps to Avoid Bankruptcy on your way to a Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis Thyroid Cancer patients are “almost three times more likely to declare bankruptcy,” 500,000 thyroid cancer survivors are subjected to more tests more...
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Thyroid Cancer No More Surgery 101: Ethanol Ablation for Of A large Congenital Rest Branchial Cleft Cyst Causing Choking in Patient with Papillary Thyroid Cancer PTC. Not Everything in the Neck is a Recurrence of cancer and needs more radiation...
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Thyroid Surgery Complications 101: What can go Wrong? Everyone needs to know all that could happen to them if they think thyroid surgery is a minor procedure. A harmless micro-cancer needs the same hospitalization and recovery as any major...
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Why We Don’t Use Stimulated Thyroglobulin TG in Follow up of Thyroid Cancer: Neck Ultrasound and Suppressed TG Are Good Enough Neck Sonography and Suppressed Thyroglobulin Have High Sensitivity for Identifying Recurrent/Persistent Disease...
More info1 Week Old New Diagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Do Not Panic: Take Time to Get Evaluated Before Any Surgery. Recently Diagnosed and feeling very overwhelmed Posted by corky19 22 Apr 2017 10:48 PM Hi All I was diagnosed with papillary...
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21 Century: The Golden Age of Non-Surgical Interventional Thyroid Ablation. How did we get here? Start with Ethanol Ablation for Cysts PEI 30 years ago ethanol PEI was proposed to treat different kinds of tumors, adrenal cysts and parathyroid...
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Endocrine Neck Cysts: What do You learn From the Cyst Fluid? Colored fluid yellow to dark brown to red is usually a thyroid cyst. Occasionally a parathyroid cyst will hemorrhage and the fluid will not be clear. Any doubt of the origin of the cyst...
More infoMaster’s Classes in Clinical Thyroidology and Interventional Procedures Master’s classes begun by Dr.Jack Baskin in the 90’s is continued here in 2017.I was one of his first students learning ultrasound intervention with ethanol...
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Endocrine Neck Ultrasound in Thyroid cancer 2017 Before the surgery for thyroid cancer neck study to find abnormal lymph nodes. A positive FNA with Thyroglobulin washout can change the original surgery plan to include neck dissection. Cytology...
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