Instructor’s Guide for ICD-9-CM Diagnostic Coding and ...

Note: Only 10 of the 50 patients underwent the total thyroidectomy early enough to be consistent with the current guidelines for the timing of prophylactic total thyroidectomies (Brandi et al. 2001). Thirteen patients had C-cell hyperplasia, and the remaining 33 patients had either microscopic or macroscopic evidence of MTC in the removed thyroid. ................
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