Prognostic factors of follicular thyroid carcinoma》.pdf

Endocrinol Nutr. 2015;62(1):1118 ENDOCRINOLOGÍA Y NUTRICIÓN www.elsevier.es/endo ORIGINAL ARTICLE Prognostic factors of follicular thyroid carcinoma Antonio a,∗ a b b Ríos , José M. Rodríguez , Belén Ferri , Enrique Martínez-Barba , Núria M. Torregrosa a , Pascual Parrillaa a Unidad de Cirugía Endocrina. Servicio de Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca , Murcia, Spain b Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain Received 2 March 2014; accepted 11 June 2014 Available online 2 January 2015 KEYWORDS Abstract Follicular carcinoma; Introduction: Most prognostic studies in differentiated carcinoma have included a high number Invasion; of papillary carcinomas and few follicular carcinomas, and not all of their conclusions therefore Differentiation; apply to the latter. Minimally invasive; Objective: To analyze the prognostic factors of follicular thyroid carcinoma. Invasive; Patients and methods: Selection criteria: Patients with histological diagnosis of follicular carci- Prognostic factors; noma who had undergone potentially curative surgery, had no disseminated disease at diagnosis, Thyroid gland and had been followed up for at least 5 years. Study variables: Tumor recurrence was defined as: (1) tumor lesions with cytological analysis suggesting malignancy and/or (2) patients with total thyroidec