A highly sensitive thyroglobulin assay has superior diagnostic sensitivity for recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer in patients undergoing TSH suppression

J Nucl Med. 2006 Mar;47(3):552-3; author reply 553.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Diagnostic Errors / prevention & control*
  • False Negative Reactions
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Humans
  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / blood*
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / drug therapy
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Thyroglobulin / blood*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / blood*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Thyrotropin / therapeutic use
  • Whole-Body Counting / methods*

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Thyrotropin
  • Thyroglobulin