Revised American Thyroid Association guidelines for the management of medullary thyroid carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The American Thyroid Association appointed a Task Force of experts to revise the original Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Management Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association.

Methods

The Task Force identified relevant articles using a systematic PubMed search, supplemented with additional published materials, and then created evidence-based recommendations, which were set in categories using criteria adapted from the United States Preventive Services Task Force Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The original guidelines provided abundant source material and an excellent organizational structure that served as the basis for the current revised document.

Results

The revised guidelines are focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of patien

SUBMITTER: Wells SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490627 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature