An elevated serum calcitonin level is a highly sensitive marker for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) that can be used for screening, differential diagnosis, prognostic assessment, follow-up ...
Yuxin Du, M.D., from the Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, and colleagues updated the optimal thresholds of basal serum calcitonin levels for predicting the extent of LNM in a retrospective ...
As medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) derives from calcitonin-secreting parafollicular cells, measurement of serum calcitonin levels in patients who present with thyroid nodules might aid early ...
Can calcitonin and carcinoembryonic antigen doubling times predict progression of thyroid carcinoma?
This study enrolled consecutive patients with MTC who were treated at a single center in France between January 2005 and August 2006. Eligible patients had elevated calcitonin levels. At enrollment, ...
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in MEN2B syndrome is associated with germline RET mutation. Patients harboring de novo mutations are usually diagnosed at more advanced disease stages. We present a ...
Calcitonin, which is also known as thyrocalcitonin, is a protein hormone that, in humans and other mammals, is mainly secreted by the parafollicular cells (C cells) of the thyroid gland. Image Credit: ...
In X-linked hypophosphatemia, phosphate wasting results from increased circulating levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23). 1 Administration of calcitonin to a patient with oncogenic ...
The question of whether serum calcitonin levels should be routinely measured in the initial work-up of with a patient with thyroid nodular disease remains unresolved. Indeed, calcitonin screening in ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results