P Raffaitin, A Hamy, E Mirallie, G Meurette, R Duplessis, P Lemeunier, A Murat, M Le Bodic, J C Le Neel, J Paineau, J Visset
The aim of this retrospective study on 52 operated medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) was to assess clinical and biochemical factors influencing survival without clinical recidive. There were 52% of familial cases. Mean age was 44 years (3 to 78 years) with 58% of women. The diagnostic was made prostoperatively in 38% of case (nodular specimen), when it was strongly suspected for 50% of patients before intervention (familial context, and/or preoperative Calcitonin (CT) levels, and/or mutation). The medial survival rate was 54 month (3 to 360 month)...
December 1999: Annales D'endocrinologie