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Preoperative serum thyroglobulin is a risk factor of skip metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma
Author(s) -
Ziyang Huang,
Muye Song,
Shujie Wang,
Jianhao Huang,
Hongyan Shi,
Yijie Huang,
Ying Yin,
Yongchen Liu,
Zeyu Wu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of translational medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-5847
pISSN - 2305-5839
DOI - 10.21037/atm.2019.10.92
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid carcinoma , thyroglobulin , univariate analysis , metastasis , thyroidectomy , primary tumor , risk factor , dissection (medical) , multivariate analysis , lymph node , stage (stratigraphy) , carcinoma , lymph , thyroid , oncology , incidence (geometry) , radiology , cancer , pathology , biology , physics , optics , paleontology
Skip metastasis of PTC was significantly associated with preoperative serum Tg ≤77 ng/mL, tumor diameter ≤10 mm, age ≥55, and tumor located in the upper lobe. It is the first time to demonstrate that Tg is associated with skip metastasis of PTC.

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