Selective use of radioactive iodine justifying "greater latitude to offer hemithyroidectomy" - 'Putting the cart before the horse'

Eur J Surg Oncol. 2019 Sep;45(9):1750-1751. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2019.01.021. Epub 2019 Jan 25.

Authors

Alfredo Campennì¹, Marco Guzzo²

Affiliations

¹ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy. Electronic address: acampenni@unime.it.
² Unit of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Milano, Italy.

PMID: 30709553
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2019.01.021

No abstract available

Keywords: Hemi-thyroidectomy; Radioiodine selective use; Radioiodine therapy; Thyroid surgery; Total-thyroidectomy.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Carcinoma, Papillary / surgery*
Humans
Iodine Radioisotopes
Thyroid Neoplasms / surgery*
Thyroidectomy

Substances

Iodine Radioisotopes