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Prophylactic thyroidectomy for MEN 2-related medullary thyroid carcinoma based on predictive testing for RET proto-oncogene mutation and basal serum calcitonin in China.
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology - 1 Sept 2013
Qi X P, Zhao J Q, Du Z F, Yang R R, Ma J M, Fei J, Cheng J, Han J S, Jin H Y, Chen Z G, Wang J Q, Yang Y P, Ying R B, Chen X L, Liu W T, Zhao Y, Jiang H L, Zhang X N
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INTRODUCTION: Early and normative surgery is the only curative method for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2)-related medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). AIMS: To study the timing of prophylactic total thyroidectomy (TT) for MEN 2-related MTC with different RET mutations in a Chinese popul...
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