This updated second edition describes all current diagnostic techniques for thyroid cancer, including FDG-PET and MRI. In recent years these modalities have documented hitherto hidden radioiodine-negative metastases, thus improving surgical therapy. In some 10% of differentiated thyroid cancers, the well-known treatment tools of surgery and radioiodine therapy are not sufficient. New treatment modalities such as high-dose radioiodine therapy, redifferentiation therapy with retinoic acid and recombinant TSH are therefore highlighted.
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RAD Magazine, July, 2006: "This latest edition is packed full of facts, updated references and illustrations ... If your everyday care involves thyroid cancer patients, this book is a must."
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978-3-662-04610-4 (9783662046104)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-04610-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1 Basics.- 1 The Changing Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer.- 2 Histopathology, Immunohistochemistry, and Molecular Biology.- 3 Familial Differentiated Carcinoma of the Thyroid.- 4 The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer.- 5 The Current Surgical Approach to Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- 2 Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- 6 Radioiodine Therapy for Thyroid Cancer.- 7 Percutaneous Radiation Therapy.- 8 Thyroid Cancer: Treatment with Thyroid Hormone.- 9 Treatment with Cytotoxic Drugs.- 10 Redifferentiation Therapy of Thyroid Carcinomas with Retinoic Acid.- 11 Follow-up of Patients with Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- 12 Functional Imaging of Thyroid Cancer.- 13 Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- 14 Thyroid Cancer in Chernobyl Children.- 3 Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- 15 Diagnosis of Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- 16 Imaging in Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- 17 Therapy for Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- 18 Follow-up of Medullary Thyroid Cancer.
