• Back to Calcitonin (CT)

• Graze K, Spiler IJ, Tashjian AH Jr, Melvin KE, Cervi-Skinner S, Gagel RF, Miller HH, Wolfe HJ, DeLellis RA, Leape L, Feldman ZT, Reichlin S. Natural history of familial medullary thyroid carcinoma: effect of a program for early diagnosis. N Engl J Med. 1978 Nov 2;299 (18):980-5
• Hennessy JF, Wells SA Jr, Ontjes DA, Cooper CW. A comparison of pentagastrin injection and calcium infusion as provocative agents for the detection of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1974 Sep;39 (3):487-95
• Niccoli P, Brunet P, Roubicek C, Roux F, Baudin E, Lejeune PJ, Berland Y, Conte-Devolx B. Abnormal calcitonin basal levels and pentagastrin response in patients with chronic renal failure on maintenance hemodialysis. Eur J Endocrinol. 1995 Jan;132 (1):75-81
• Pacini F, Fontanelli M, Fugazzola L, Elisei R, Romei C, Di Coscio G, Miccoli P, Pinchera A. Routine measurement of serum calcitonin in nodular thyroid diseases allows the preoperative diagnosis of unsuspected sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1994 Apr;78 (4):826-9
• Quesada JM, Mateo A, Jans I, Rodriguez M, Bouillon R. Calcitriol corrects deficient calcitonin secretion in the vitamin D-deficient elderly. J Bone Miner Res. 1994 Jan;9 (1):53-7
• Rougier P, Calmettes C, Laplanche A, Travagli JP, Lefevre M, Parmentier C, Milhaud G, Tubiana M. The values of calcitonin and carcinoembryonic antigen in the treatment and management of nonfamilial medullary thyroid carcinoma. Cancer. 1983 Mar 1;51 (5):855-62
• Wallach SR, Royston I, Taetle R, Wohl H, Deftos LJ. Plasma calcitonin as a marker of disease activity in patients with small cell carcinoma of the lung. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1981 Sep;53 (3):602-6
• Wells SA Jr, Baylin SB, Linehan WM, Farrell RE, Cox EB, Cooper CW. Provocative agents and the diagnosis of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. Ann Surg. 1978 Aug;188 (2):139-41
• Wells SA Jr, Baylin SB, Linehan WM, Farrell RE, Cox EB, Cooper CW. Provocative agents and the diagnosis of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. Ann Surg. 1978 Aug;188 (2):139-41