• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.214-219
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• 1998

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the low-dose(30mCi) I-131 ablation therapy for remnant thyroid tissue following total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. Methods: Between March 1995 and December 1997, forty-eight patients were given ablative doses(30mCi) of I-131 after total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer in the presence of I-131 uptake in remnant thyroid tissue. Effective ablation of remnant thyroid tissue was determined by following I-131 whole body scan. if remnant thyroid tissue remained, we repeated the same management at 6 months interval. Results: Thirty-eight(79.1%) patients had papillary, 8(16.7%) follicular, 1(2.1%) medullary and 1(2.1%) Hurthle cell type cancer. Forty-eight patients underwent total thyroidectomy, among those central neck dissection was performed in 35 cases, and modified radical neck dissection in 14 cases. Postoperative complication developed in 8 cases, which included 4 cases of transient hypoparathyroidism, 1 case of permanent hypoparathyroidism, 2 cases of transient recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy, and 1 case of wound hematoma. There were significant remnant thyroid tissue in 46 cases(95.8%) of patients after total thyroidectomy, which could be ablated by low dose(30mCi) I-131. There were no statistical difference between operative procedures and number of treatment of I-131. Conclusions: These results suggested that repeated low-dose(30mCi) I-131 therapy would be needed, therefore, high -dose I-131 therapy could be considered as ablation therapy for the remnant thyroid tissue after total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.339-345
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• 1997

저자들은 1984년부터 1996년까지 서울대학교병원에서 분화성 갑상선암으로 수술을 시행한 후 I-131을 이용하여 수술 후 잔여 갑상선 제거를 받은 350명을 관찰하여 다음과 같은 성적을 얻었다. 1) 분화성 갑상선암 수술 후 30mCi I-131을 평균 $2.6{\pm}1.7$회 투여하며 51%에서, 75mCi 이상 I-131을 평균 $1.6{\pm}1.1$회 투여하여 72%에서 성공적으로 잔여갑상선 조직을 제거하였다. 2) 30mCi 저용량 사용 시 1회 치료의 24%, 2회 치료 22%, 2회 치료 25%, 4회 치료 8%, 5회 치료19%, 6회 이상의 치료로 19%의 환자에서 성공적으로 잔여 갑상선 조직을 제거하였다. 3) 입원 치료가 필요한 75mCi 이상의 고용량 I-131 치료에서는 1회 치료군의 53%, 2회 58%, 3회 0%, 4회 이상 치료군에서 44%의 환자에서 잔여 갑상선을 완전히 제거하였다. 4) 갑상선 전절제 후 78%, 아절제 후 62%, 한엽 및 협부 절제 후 54%, 한엽이하 절제 시 33%에서 수술 후 잔여 갑상선을 제거하여 수술 후 잔여 갑상선 조직이 적을수록 I-131 효과가 있었다. 결론적으로 이 연구에서 수술 후 30mCi I-131을 이용한 경우의 일부에서는 잔여 갑상선의 제거는 충분히 이루어지지 않아, 재발의 위험도가 높은 군에서 분화성 갑상선 암 환자의 치료시 적극적인 수술로 갑상선 전절제 후 고용량의 방사성 옥소 치료가 바람직하리라 여겨진다.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.133-137
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• 1996

A 17 month-old girl presented in the pediatric clinic on November 27th, 1990 with a neck mass. The mass was 2 cm in diameter, firm in consistency and movable on the upper pole of the thyroid cartilage in the midline. The technetium thyroid scan showed a hot reactivity at the compatible site of the mass, but no other radioactivity in either site of the normal thyroid positions. At her second visit on January 23th, 1996, the mass had enlarged up to 3.5cm in diameter in the same location of the neck. The follow up thyroid scan revealed a walnut sized, snowman-like radioactivity. One of the snowman-like double images seemed to be a lingual ectopic thyroid and the other a midline ectopic thyroid remnant in the infrahyoid level. This interpretation was supported by the computed tomography of the neck, which showed a ligual mass in the foramen cecum area and an another mass in the anterior comis-sure of the larynx in the mildline. Thyroid function test was normal except a slightly increased TSH. As a result of this changing pattern of thyroid radioactive images, a case of a lingual thyroid as well as another midline ectopic thyroid tissue at the infrahyoid level is reported.

• The Korean journal of internal medicine
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.1050-1057
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• 2018

Thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) is a class G immunoglobulin and a conventional marker for thyroid autoimmunity. From a clinical perspective, TgAb is less useful than thyroid peroxidase antibodies for predicting thyroid dysfunction. However, TgAb is found more frequently in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and can interfere with thyroglobulin (Tg) measurements, which are used to monitor the recurrence or persistence of DTC. Recent studies suggested a small but consistent role for preoperative TgAb in predicting DTC in thyroid nodules, and in reflecting adverse tumor characteristics or prognosis, including lymph node metastasis, but this is still controversial. Postoperative TgAb can serve as a biomarker for remnant thyroid tissue, so follow-up measures of TgAb are useful for predicting cancer recurrence in DTC patients. Since high serum TgAb levels may also affect the fine needle aspiration washout Tg levels from suspicious lymph nodes of DTC patients, it is important to use caution when interpreting the washout Tg levels in patients who are positive for TgAb.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.120-127
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• 2003

목적: 갑상선 절제술을 받은 분화 갑상선암 환자의 경우 잔여 갑상선 조직이나 전이 병소를 찾기 위해서는 진단적 I-131 스캔이 주로 사용되고 있으나, I-131 스캔은 갑상선 호르몬 중지가 필요하고, 방사성 옥소 투여후 $2{\sim}3$일에 영상을 얻어야 하며, 기절 현상이 발생할 수 있다는 점 등의 단점이 있다. 이에 비하여 Tc-99m 스캔은 검사가 용이하고 영상의 질이 좋아 진단적 I-131 스캔을 대체할 수 있을 지에 대한 논란이 있다. 이에 저자들은 고용량 방사성 옥소 치료 후 시행한 I-131 스캔을 기준으로 하여 치료전 시행한 Tc-99m 스캔의 진단성능을 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 갑상선 절제술을 받은 분화 갑상선암 환자 135명을 대상 (여: 114, 연령: $45{\pm}15.3$세)으로 하였고, 방사성옥소 치료 병력이 있는 환자는 23명 (1회 16명, 2회 4명, 3회 3명)이었다. 갑상선 호르몬 복용을 4주간 중단한 후 370 MBq의 Tc-99m pertechnetate를 정맥주사 한 20분 후에 전경부의 평면 및 바늘구멍 Tc-99m 스캔 영상을 얻었고, $3.7{\sim}7.4GBq$의 I-131 옥소를 경구 복용한 3일후 전경부 평면 및 바늘구멍 I-131 스캔 영상을 얻었다. Tc-99m 스캔과 I-131 스캔은 최대 7일 간격 이내에 시행되었다. 영상의 판독은 두명의 핵의학 전문의가 함께 합의에 의하여 시각적으로 섭취여부 및 섭취부위의 개수를 구하였다. 결과: 대상 환자 모두는 혈청 TSH는 30 mlU/L 이상으로, 갑상선 기능저하증 상태에 있었다. 전체 환자 135명 가운데 65명 (48.1%)에서 Tc-99m 스캔과 I-131 스캔이 불일치 소견을 보였다. 두 스캔사이에 불일치를 보인 환자 가운데 23명 (35.4%)은 Tc-99m 스캔에서는 전경부 방사능 섭취부위가 발견되지 않았으나 I-131 스캔에서 옥소 섭취부위가 발견된 경우이며, 42명 (64.6%)은 Tc-99m 스캔보다 I-131 스캔에서 전경부 옥소 섭취부위가 더 많이 발견되었다. 방사성 옥소 치료병력이 없는 환자 112명 가운데 51명 (45.5%)은 Tc-99m 스캔과 I-131 스캔이 불일치 소견을 보였다. 이들 가운데 Tc-99m 스캔에서 전경부 방사능 섭취부위가 발견되지 않았던 11명 가운데 9명 (81.8%)은 I-131 스캔에서 옥소 섭취부위가 발견되었다. 수술후 방사성옥소 치료를 받은 병력이 있는 전체 23명은 Tc-99m 스캔상 전경부 섭취부위가 발견되지 않았으나, 이들 중 14명 (60.9%)은 I-131 스캔에서 전경부의 옥소 섭취부위가 나타났었다. 결론: 이상의 결과로 보아 분화 갑상선암 환자의 수술 후 잔여 갑상선조직이나 전이병소를 평가시 Tc-99m 스캔은 고용량의 방사성 옥소 치료후 얻은 I-131 스캔을 기준으로 볼때 진단적 예민도가 낮았으며, 특히, 방사성 옥소 치료병력을 가진 환자의 경우, 진단적 유용성이 없는 것으로 생각된다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.272-273
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• 2004

We experienced a case with meningioma showing false positive I-131 uptake. A 55-years old female patient underwent high dose (150 mCi) radioactive iodine therapy to ablate remnant tissue after total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer. in addition to intense tracer uptake in thyroid bed, there was mild but focal abnormal uptake in left frontal lobe of the brain on post-therapy I-131 whole body scan. Subsequent brain MR imaging showed single mass lesion in left frontal lobe and the mass was resected under the impression of brain metastasis of thyroid carcinoma. Pathologic report confirmed meningioma from the surgical specimen.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2015

Purpose Serum Thyroglobulin measurement is a major tool for the follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients. Thyroglobulin is Normal thyroid tissue, or thyroid cancer tissue produced only. Thyroid hormone to a halt without Tg differentiation of thyroid cancer recurrence just by measuring how to decide whether there was increasing expectations if I can do it instead. Therefore, in excellent sensitivity Tg new inspection of the functional sensitivity by measuring the looked to evaluate the usefulness of reagents. Thyroidectomy is measuring the numbers Tg (total thyroidectomy) remaining thyroid ablation and radioactive iodine (radioactive iodine remnant ablation, RRA) DTC in patients being diagnosed with or help predict the remaining early detection of thyroid cancer recurrence. Materials and Methods Agent that I'm currently using Tg of the measurements of low clinical specimen for a second drainage of the three (0.08 0.17, 0.98, ng/mL) within the scope of the dilute magnification (2, 4, 8, 16, 32 times) by dilute Intraassy (n=10) and Interassay (n=10) out in no time. Concentration value according to the coefficient of variation and the mean and standard deviation of each measurement (Coefficient of variation, CV) the absolute value of the measured values that corresponds to 20 percent target a coefficient of variation of CV Find the value of the concentration of the functional sensitivity measurement did. Also, analytical sensitivity with recovery rates, Dilution test inspections, and interrelationship, compared. Results Sensitivity is an excellent analytical sensitivity within the prosecutor kit Tg 0.006 ng/mL, and core analytical sensitivity, conducted by the 0.006 ng/mL to same conclusion. Be rather high to 142 percent recovery rate was 60 to measurement and functional sensitivity, 0.01766 ng/mL(Intraassay n=10) was measured at. CBC is relatively good correlation as ($R^2=0.949$) the correlation. Conclusion Recently ultrasensitive thyroglobulin this clinically important indicators of the previous kit and demands are lower than sensitivity to the measurement results. Therefore, ultrasensitive thyroglobulin test is correlated that there would be useful in value in nuclear medicine the thyroid gland.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.185-190
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• 1995

Transient and permanent hypocalcemia after various types of thyroidectomy are well-known complications, and are more common after bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy for Graves' disease. However, their causative mechanisms are not well explained. Four hundred thirty patients with Graves' disease who underwent bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy from January 1983 through December 1992 were analyzed to determine the incidence and risk factors for the development of postthyroidectomy hypocalcemia. Of the 430 patients underwent bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy, symptomatic transient and permanent hypocalcemia developed in 24.2 % (104/430) and 0.5 % (2/430), respectively. With analysis of potential risk factors, the increase in incidence of the postthyroidectomy hypocalcemia was found to be statistically related to the larger thyroid gland, the larger amount of blood loss during thyroidectomy, the smaller remnant thyroid tissue, the higher levels of serum alkaline phosphatase and TBII titers. Our data suggest that impairment of parathyroid gland blood supply, degree of thyrotoxic osteodystrophy and autoimmune process of each patient are regarded as main mechanisms of postthyroidectomy hypocalcemia in patients with Graves' disease.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2020

Background/Objectives: To analyze the clinical characteristics of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) in children and adolescents. Materials & Methods: Medical records of 31 DTC cases that were diagnosed and treated at Korea Cancer Center Hospital between 2002 and 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Results: Most cases were papillary carcinoma (n=26), with female predominance (n=25). Median age was 16.4 years (range, 11.9-18.6 years). Extrathyroidal extension was present in 24 cases. Twenty cases had tumor involvement at cervical lymph nodes and three had lung metastasis. Twenty-two patients received radioactive iodide treatment with a median cumulative dose of 300 mCi (range, 100-920 mCi). During a median follow-up of 68.2 months (range, 2.3-191.4 months), serum thyroglobulin level was elevated in 15 patients. Among them, two cases had remnant thyroid tissue, 4 had recurrence at cervical lymph nodes, and the remaining 9 did not have any detectable lesion. All were alive, and 5-year event-free survival (EFS) was 45.2±10.1%. Age £15 years, tumor size, lymph node status (N1b), and distant metastasis had negative effects on EFS. On multivariate analysis, age and tumor size had prognostic significance. Conclusion: For DTC of children and adolescents (£18 years old), age ≤15 years and tumor size were prognostic factor. Therefore, patients in this age group need meticulous follow-up. Further studies are necessary to answer the potential influence of age on the incidence and behavior of DTC.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.35-39
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• 1997

Background: Completion thyroidectomy is defined as the surgical removal of the remnant thyroid tissue following procedures less than total or near-total thyroidectomy. Although some authors advocate subtotal thyroidectomy with lower complication rates, total or completion thyroidectomy have been defended by others because of the improved survival and lower morbidity that is comparable with subtotal thyroidectomy. Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to review the necessity and safety of completion thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma(DTC). Materials & Methods: During the past 10 years(1986 to 1996) , authors have performed 211 total thyroidectomy. Ten of these patients were treated by completion thyroidectomy for DTC. Initial operation of 7 patients had been performed at St. Vincents Hospital and 3 patients at other hospital. The medical records of patients undergoing completion thyroidectomy were retrospectively reviewed. Results: The completion thyroidectomy specimen contained residual tumor cells in 8 of the 8 patients with papillary carcinoma and none of the two patients with follicular carcinoma. Complications of completion thyroidectomy were transient hypoparathyroidism in two patients and transient unilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy in one patient. But permanent complications were not noticed. Conclusion: We recommend completion thyroidectomy as an efficient and safe method of surgical treatment with a low complication rate for DTC.