Clinical Thyroidology February 2013 Entire Issue - American Thyroid ...
Clinical Thyroidology February 2013 Entire Issue - American Thyroid ...
Clinical Thyroidology February 2013 Entire Issue - American Thyroid ...
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Meta-analysis of Studies of <strong>Thyroid</strong>ectomy SpecimensShows a Positive Correlation between Papillary<strong>Thyroid</strong> Carcinoma and Hashimoto’s <strong>Thyroid</strong>itisLee JH, et al.ResultsThe 38 studies consisted of 37 case–control studiesand one cohort study. The number of patients in eachstudy ranged from 6 to1788, with a total of 10,648PTC cases. Only 11 studies compared the frequencyof HT in cases of PTC and benign thyroid disease. HTwas found in 938 of 2317 (40.5%) of PTC cases and in634 of 3019 (21%) of benign cases (OR, 2.77;95% CI,1.95 to 3.93; P
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