Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce

a. Goals of therapy b.Role of preoperative staging with diagnostic testing c.Surgery for differentiated thyroid cancer iii.Extent of initial surgery iii.Completion thyroidectomy d.Pathological and clinical staging systems e. Postoperative radioiodine remnant ablation iii.Modes of thyroid hormone withdrawal iii.Role of diagnostic scanning before ablation iii.Radioiodine ablation dosage iv.Use of recombinant human thyrotropin for remnant ablation iv.Role of low iodine diets vi.Performance of post therapy scans f.Thyroxine suppression therapy g.Role of adjunctive external beam radiation or chemotherapy 5. Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Long-Term Management . . . . . II.