The follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and undetectable thyroglobulin (Tg) and Tg antibodies during ablation

HTT Phan, PL Jager, JE van der Wal… - European Journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… patients with differentiated thyroid cancer were treated in our hospital. Of these 346 (27%)
patients, 94 had undetectable Tg at the time of 131 I ablation at thyroid stimulating hormone (…

Persistent disease and recurrence in differentiated thyroid cancer patients with undetectable postoperative stimulated thyroglobulin level

C Nascimento, I Borget, A Al Ghuzlan… - … -Related Cancer, 2011 - erc.bioscientifica.com
… )-stimulated thyroglobulin testing in differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients with previous
negative rhTSH-stimulated thyroglobulin and undetectable basal serum thyroglobulin levels. …

Undetectable thyroglobulin after total thyroidectomy in patients with low-and intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer—is there a need for radioactive iodine therapy?

T Ibrahimpasic, IJ Nixon, FL Palmer, MM Whitcher… - Surgery, 2012 - Elsevier
… the aim of achieving an undetectable postoperative serum Tg. By … undetectable Tg after
total thyroidectomy stratified by the use of postoperative RAI. We hypothesize that undetectable

Thyroid cancer recurrence in patients clinically free of disease with undetectable or very low serum thyroglobulin values

RT Kloos - The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… had initial thyroid cancerthyroglobulin (Tg) measurement before April 2001 if they had no
antithyroglobulin antibodies, were clinically free of disease, and had one or more undetectable

Long-term clinical outcome of differentiated thyroid cancer patients with undetectable stimulated thyroglobulin level one year after initial treatment

JM Han, WB Kim, JH Yim, WG Kim, TY Kim, JS Ryu… - Thyroid, 2012 - liebertpub.com
disease (8,16–19). In the present study, 5/13 patients had recurrent disease with persistently
undetectable … Tg principally reflects the tumor burden or the ability of the tumor to synthesize …

Low or Undetectable Basal Thyroglobulin Levels Obviate the Need for Neck Ultrasound in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients After Total Thyroidectomy and 131I …

FA Verburg, U Mäder, L Giovanella, M Luster… - Thyroid, 2018 - liebertpub.com
… seen as a main component of follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and is usually
performed regardless of non-stimulated thyroglobulin (Tg) levels. The aim of this study was …

Preoperative undetectable serum thyroglobulin in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: incidence, causes and management strategy

L Giovanella, L Ceriani, A Ghelfo… - Clinical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). However, preoperative undetectable Tg
was … Aim We retrospectively evaluated the incidence of undetectable or reduced preoperative …

Unstimulated high-sensitive thyroglobulin is a powerful prognostic predictor in patients with thyroid cancer

L Giovanella, M Castellana, P Trimboli - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2019 - degruyter.com
… of Tg when undetectable value and NED status are simultaneously demonstrated; (2)
prognostic performance of undetectable Tg in predicting NED in the subsequent follow-up. …

Thyroglobulin in differentiated thyroid cancer

C Evans, S Tennant, P Perros - Clinica Chimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
… that thyroglobulin testing is … thyroid cancer (DTC) who have been rendered athyreotic as
a result of total thyroidectomy and radioiodine ablation, an undetectable serum thyroglobulin

Serum thyroglobulin in the monitoring of differentiated thyroid cancer

C Evans, S Tennant, P Perros - Scandinavian Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… The finding of disease or thyroid remnant with both undetectable Tg and undetectable TgAb
is occasionally encountered. This may occur when TgAb are not measured with a sensitive …