Research Article
Preoperative Thyrotropin Serum Concentrations Gradually Increase from Benign Thyroid Nodules to Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinomas Then to Papillary Thyroid Cancers of Larger Size
Table 1
Distribution of patients according to TSH categories: <0.4 mU/L (subclinical hyperthyroidism); 0.4–4.0 mU/L (euthyroidism); >4.0 mU/L (subclinical hypothyroidism). PTMC: papillary thyroid microcarcinoma and TCLS: thyroid carcinoma of larger size.
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