After extensive surgery, calcitonin levels plummet in most patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) without lymph node metastases. Calcitonin, however, remains elevated in two-thirds of ...
FNAB-C remains the gold standard technique for the diagnosis of suspicious CLN due to its ability to efficiently diagnose metastasis not only from thyroid cancers, but also from other primary tumors.
metastasis from either DTC or MTC. The results obtained suggest that while samples for Tg protein and Tg/CT mRNA measurements from CLN suspicious for metastatic thyroid cancer should be always ...