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PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to find out information relevant to the certification of trainees in surgical endocrinology specialty—duration of training, entry/exit criteria, curriculum and accreditation agency.
METHODS: Information...
PURPOSE: The authors hypothesized that increases in socioeconomic status (SES) have enabled patients to access medical services more frequently, resulting in the increased detection of small thyroid cancers. This retrospective...
PURPOSE: Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) can frequently metastasize to distant organs, which worsens the prognosis. This study evaluated the risk factors of distant metastasis in FTC.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 149...
PURPOSE: American Thyroid Association's guidelines (2015) recommend that papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) ≤4 cm without extrathyroidal extension (ETE) and clinical lymph node metastasis (cLNM) can be treated by a unilateral...