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Thyroglobulin in fine-needle aspirates—a clue to metastasis?

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Clinical investigation of enlarged, local lymph nodes after surgery for papillary thyroid carcinoma is problematic. Use of the fine-needle aspiration thyroglobulin assay could help to identify patients whose disease has progressed to lymph-node metastasis.

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  1. Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Università di Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy

    Giuseppe Costante

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Sebastiano Filetti

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Costante, G., Filetti, S. Thyroglobulin in fine-needle aspirates—a clue to metastasis?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 5, 249–250 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2009.55

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