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Should the use of neck-ultrasonography be reduced during the follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer patients with undetectable or low (i.e., < 1 µg/L) thyroglobulin levels and negative thyroglobulin antibody?

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  1. Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy

    A. Campennì

  2. Section of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    M. Tulchinsky

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Campennì, A., Tulchinsky, M. Should the use of neck-ultrasonography be reduced during the follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer patients with undetectable or low (i.e., < 1 µg/L) thyroglobulin levels and negative thyroglobulin antibody?. J Endocrinol Invest 42, 105–106 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-018-0957-2

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