Follicular thyroid cancer natural history, complications and prognosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2]

Overview

Natural History

Complications

Prognosis

High Risk

  • Women older than 50 with follicular carcinoma
  • Men older than 40 with follicular carcinoma
  • Distant metastasis
  • Large tumor size
  • Extensive vascular invasion
  • Extra thyroidal extension
  • Widely invasive tumors

Intermediate Risk Group

  • Women older than 50 with papillary carcinoma
  • Men older than 40 with papillary carcinoma

Low Risk Group

  • Children
  • Adolescent
  • Women younger than 50
  • Men younger than 40

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