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How would you manage a papillary thyroid carcinoma incidentally found on planning CT for T1 glottic cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

Treat the glottis with RT 63 Gy/28 fractions and then operate the thyroid.

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Radiation Oncology · West Virginia University

Interesting case. There's a small surgical series from Hopkins (Farrag et al., PMID 17043249) reviewing their experience with sub-TL for laryngeal Ca and they reported a 12% incidence of concurrent thyroid lesions, 6% overall of which were papillary thyroid cancer and they concluded that all patient...

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