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  1. Unexplained increase of serum carcinoembryonic antigen: don’t forget the thyroid!

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), April 2023, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  2. Is thyroglobulin a reliable biomarker of differentiated thyroid cancer in patients treated by lobectomy? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), April 2022, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  3. Low free-T3 serum levels and prognosis of COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), August 2021, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  4. Clinical performance of calcitonin and procalcitonin Elecsys® immunoassays in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), October 2020, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  5. Unstimulated high-sensitive thyroglobulin is a powerful prognostic predictor in patients with thyroid cancer

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), December 2019, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella, MD Marco Castellana

  6. 18F-FDG-PET/CT Imaging in Advanced Glottic Cancer: A Tool for Clinical Decision in Comparison with Conventional Imaging

    Article • Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging, September 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  7. Measuring thyroglobulin in patients with thyroglobulin autoantibodies: evaluation of the clinical impact of BRAHMS Kryptor® Tg-minirecovery test in a large series of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), July 2019, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  8. Establishing normal values of total testosterone in adult healthy men by the use of four immunometric methods and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), October 2018, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  9. Euthyroid Graves’ disease with spurious hyperthyroidism: a diagnostic challenge

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), September 2018, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  10. Recent Developments of 18F-FET PET in Neuro-oncology

    Article • Current Medicinal Chemistry, September 2018, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Giorgio Treglia, MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  11. Fine-needle aspiration in all thyroid incidentalomas at 18 F-FDG PET/CT: Can EU-TIRADS revise the dogma?

    Article • Clinical Endocrinology, August 2018, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  12. Measuring procalcitonin to overcome heterophilic-antibody-induced spurious hypercalcitoninemia

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), July 2018, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  13. Comparison of high intensity focused ultrasound and radioiodine for treating toxic thyroid nodules

    Article • Clinical Endocrinology, May 2018, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  14. Procalcitonin measurement to screen medullary thyroid carcinoma: A prospective evaluation in a series of 2705 patients with thyroid nodules

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Investigation, April 2018, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  15. American Thyroid Association ultrasound system for the initial assessment of thyroid nodules: Use in stratifying the risk of malignancy of indeterminate lesions

    Article • Head & Neck, December 2017, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella, PAOLO PIERO LIMONE

  16. Early post-treatment risk stratification of differentiated thyroid cancer: comparison of three high-sensitive Tg assays

    Article • European Journal of Endocrinology, November 2017, Bioscientifica

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  17. Multicentre clinical evaluation of the new highly sensitive Elecsys® thyroglobulin II assay in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma

    Article • Clinical Endocrinology, October 2017, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  18. Letter to the Editor: What Is the Role of Serum Thyroglobulin Measurement in Patients With Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Treated Without Radioactive Iodine?

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, June 2017, Endocrine Society

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  19. Prognostic models for primary mediastinal (thymic) B-cell lymphoma derived from 18-FDG PET/CT quantitative parameters in the International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group (IELSG) 26 study

    Article • British Journal of Haematology, May 2017, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella, Prof. Emanuele Zucca

  20. Letter to the Editor: “Postoperative Thyroglobulin and Neck Ultrasound in the Risk Restratification and Decision to Perform 131I Ablation”

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, May 2017, Endocrine Society

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  21. Columnar cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: Cytomorphological characteristics of 11 cases with histological correlation and literature review

    Article • Cancer Cytopathology, April 2017, Wiley

    Professor Massimo Bongiovanni, MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella, Gerasimos Sykiotis

  22. Measurement of thyroglobulin, calcitonin, and PTH in FNA washout fluids

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 2017, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  23. Prevalence of normal TSH value among patients with autonomously functioning thyroid nodule

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Investigation, June 2015, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  24. Procalcitonin for detecting medullary thyroid carcinoma: a systematic review

    Article • May 2015, Bioscientifica

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  25. Thyroglobulin measurement by highly sensitive assays: focus on laboratory challenges

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  26. Serum calcitonin negative medullary thyroid carcinoma: a systematic review of the literature

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 2015, De Gruyter

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  27. DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOCRINE DISEASE: Thyroglobulin measurement using highly sensitive assays in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer: a clinical position paper

    Article • April 2014, Bioscientifica

    Professor Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  28. Hypercalcitoninemia and thyroid nodules

    Article • Diagnostic Cytopathology, February 2014, Wiley

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  29. When to perform positron emission tomography/computed tomography or radionuclide bone scan in patients with recently diagnosed prostate cancer

    Article • Cancer Management and Research, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Giorgio Treglia, MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  30. Serum cytokeratin 19 fragments: a dedifferentiation marker in advanced thyroid cancer

    Article • September 2012, Bioscientifica

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella

  31. Serum Procalcitonin and Calcitonin Normal Values Before and After Calcium Gluconate Infusion

    Article • Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes, February 2012, Thieme Publishing Group

    MD Ph.D. Luca LG Giovanella