Value of Diagnostic Radioiodine Whole-Body Scanning After Initial Therapy in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer at Intermediate and High Risk for Recurrence

Abstract

DxWBS can be avoided in patients with large tumors or extensions beyond the thyroid capsule or lymph node metastases, but who show no apparent disease upon initial RxWBS and US and whose serum TgT4 of <1 ng/mL and negative TgAb after thyroidectomy and ablation.