Malignant thyroid nodule topography as additional risk factor for lymph-node metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer patients

Affiliations

• ¹ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria nr.1, 98125, Messina, Italy. acampenni@unime.it.
• ² Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria nr.1, 98125, Messina, Italy.
• ³ Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
• ⁴ Clinic for Nuclear Medicine and Competence Centre for Thyroid Diseases, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.