Concomitant thyroid cancer in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN)-1 undergoing surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism.

CONCLUSIONS: Although patients with MEN-1 have a substantial incidence of thyroid cancer (28%), and undergo more unplanned thyroidectomies during parathyroidectomy than do patients with sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism, clinically significant thyroid cancer is proportionally uncommon. PMID: 30608029 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30608029?dopt=Abstract

Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - January 5, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Thyroid Source Type: research