Total Thyroidectomy Versus Lobectomy for Thyroid Cancer: Single-Center Data and Literature Review.

After LT, thyroglobulin (Tg)/thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) had shown decreasing trend in 68% of the event-free patients and an increasing trend in the persistent cases.

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Although data from a prospective study would certainly be highly significant, our study had the advantage of including only patients followed up in a single tertiary care center, with the result that the clinical record was thus extremely accurate, and information was very rarely missed.

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In particular, among the 41 event-free patients after LT, we observed a decreasing trend in 28 cases (mean percentage change, –55% ± 0.27), whereas among the remaining 13 patients, the Tg levels and Tg/TSH ratio remained stable (Fig. 3 , left panel).

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