Guidelines of Polish National Societies Diagnostics and Treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma. 2018 Update.

Significant advances have been made in thyroid can-cer research in recent years, therefore relevant clinical guidelines need to be updated. The current Polish guidelines "Diagnostics and Treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma" have been formulated at the "Thyroid Cancer and Other Malignancies of Endocrine Glands" conference held in Wisła in November 2015 [1].

Andrzej Cichocki | Agnieszka Kotecka-Blicharz | Marek Niedziela | Ewa Zembala-Nożyńska | Andrzej Lewiński | Tomasz Bednarczuk | Ewa Małecka-Tendera | Marek Ruchała | Grzegorz Kamiński | Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk | Mariusz Klencki | Monika Buziak-Bereza | K. Jażdżewski | E. Chmielik | M. Ruchała | T. Bednarczuk | A. Hubalewska-Dydejczyk | B. Kos-Kudła | A. Lewiński | A. Syrenicz | Dagmara Rusinek | B. Jarzab | M. Niedziela | A. Bossowski | A. Nasierowska-Guttmejer | Z. Adamczewski | M. Karbownik-Lewińska | M. Barczyński | M. Bagłaj | Barbara Jarząb | Marek Dedecjus | Dorota Słowińska-Klencka | Zbigniew Adamczewski | Ryszard Anielski | Maciej Bagłaj | Agata Bałdys-Waligórska | Marcin Barczyński | Artur Bossowski | Ewa Chmielik | Agnieszka Czarniecka | Rafał Czepczyński | Janusz Dzięcioł | Tomasz Gawlik | Daria Handkiewicz-Junak | Kornelia Hasse-Lazar | Krystian Jażdżewski | Beata Jurecka-Lubieniecka | Michał Kalemba | Małgorzata Karbownik-Lewińska | Beata Kos-Kudła | Aldona Kowalska | Jolanta Krajewska | Aleksandra Kropińska | Aleksandra Kukulska | Emilia Kulik | Andrzej Kułakowski | Krzysztof Kuzdak | Dariusz Lange | Aleksandra Ledwon | Elżbieta Lewandowska-Jabłońska | Katarzyna Łącka | Barbara Michalik | Anna Nasierowska-Guttmejer | Janusz Nauman | Małgorzata Oczko-Wojciechowska | Tomasz Olczyk | Ewa Paliczka-Cieślik | Lech Pomorski | Zbigniew Puch | Józef Roskosz | Dagmara Rusinek | Stanisław Sporny | Agata Stanek-Widera | Zoran Stojcev | Aleksandra Syguła | Anhelli Syrenicz | Sylwia Szpak-Ulczok | Tomasz Tomkalski | Zbigniew Wygoda | Jan Włoch | L. Pomorski | E. Malecka-Tendera | R. Czepczyński | A. Cichocki | D. Handkiewicz-Junak | D. Lange | M. Dedecjus | J. Krajewska | Agnieszka Kotecka-Blicharz | M. Oczko-Wojciechowska | A. Czarniecka | J. Włoch | A. Kowalska | D. Słowińska-Klencka | M. Klencki | A. Kukulska | E. Zembala-Nożyńska | A. Kropińska | B. Jurecka-Lubieniecka | A. Stanek-Widera | K. Kuzdak | S. Sporny | G. Kamiński | K. Hasse-Lazar | Z. Stojčev | T. Gawlik | J. Roskosz | Z. Puch | Z. Wygoda | M. Buziak-Bereza | A. Bałdys-Waligórska | E. Paliczka-Cieslik | B. Michalik | M. Kalemba | S. Szpak-Ulczok | T. Olczyk | K. Łącka | A. Ledwoń | A. Syguła | J. Nauman | A. Kułakowski | R. Anielski | J. Dzięcioł | Tomasz Tomkalski | E. Kulik | Elżbieta Lewandowska-Jabłońska | Zoran Stojčev | M. Niedziela

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