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.
| Author: H. -J Biersack |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Jun 10, 2005 |
| Number of Pages: 363 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 3540223096 |
| ISBN-13: 9783540223092 |