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Quality indicators for thyroid cancer care: What should surgeons know?

  • Akie Watanabe
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    Department of Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6Z 1Y6, Canada
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  • Sam M. Wiseman
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    Corresponding author. Department of Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital, C303-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6Z 1Y6, Canada.
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    Department of Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6Z 1Y6, Canada
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Published:February 09, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.02.007

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      Abbreviations:

      TC (Thyroid cancer), DTC (Differentiated thyroid carcinoma), QI (Quality indicator), US (Ultrasound), FNAB (Fine needle aspiration biopsy), TI-RADS (Thyroid Imaging Reporting Data System), TBS (Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology), ATA (American Thyroid Association), RLN (Recurrent laryngeal nerve), CND (Central neck dissection), IONM (Intraoperative nerve monitoring), PTH (Parathyroid hormone), Tg (Thyroglobulin), sTg (Stimulated thyroglobulin), RAI (Radioactive iodine)
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