Unstimulated Serum Thyroglobulin Levels after Thyroidectomy and Radioiodine Therapy for Intermediate-Risk Thyroid Cancer Are Not Always a Reliable Marker of Lymph Node Recurrence: Case Report and a Lesson for Clinicians

<div>Ultrasonographic suspicious features of the large solid hypoechoic and taller-than-wide shape thyroid nodule located in the mid-inferior part of the left lobe (a), which showed significant tracer uptake at 18F-FDG PET/CT (arrow, (b)).</div>

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Figure 1: Unstimulated Serum Thyroglobulin Levels after Thyroidectomy and Radioiodine Therapy for Intermediate-Risk Thyroid Cancer Are Not Always a Reliable Marker of Lymph Node Recurrence: Case Report and a Lesson for Clinicians 

Figure 1 | Unstimulated Serum Thyroglobulin Levels after Thyroidectomy and Radioiodine Therapy for Intermediate-Risk Thyroid Cancer Are Not Always a Reliable Marker of Lymph Node Recurrence: Case Report and a Lesson for Clinicians 