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Julie A. Sosa

University of California at San Francisco-UCSF
Verified email at ucsf.edu
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2015 American Thyroid Association management guidelines for adult patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer: the American Thyroid Association …

…, M Schlumberger, KG Schuff, SI Sherman, JA Sosa… - Thyroid, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Background: Thyroid nodules are a common clinical problem, and differentiated thyroid
cancer is becoming increasingly prevalent. Since the American Thyroid Association's (ATA's) …

2016 American Thyroid Association guidelines for diagnosis and management of hyperthyroidism and other causes of thyrotoxicosis

…, AL Maia, SA Rivkees, M Samuels, JA Sosa… - Thyroid, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Background: Thyrotoxicosis has multiple etiologies, manifestations, and potential therapies.
Appropriate treatment requires an accurate diagnosis and is influenced by coexisting …

Trends in thyroid cancer incidence and mortality in the United States, 1974-2013

H Lim, SS Devesa, JA Sosa, D Check, CM Kitahara - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Thyroid cancer incidence has increased substantially in the United States over
the last 4 decades, driven largely by increases in papillary thyroid cancer. It is unclear …

Hyperthyroidism and other causes of thyrotoxicosis: management guidelines of the American Thyroid Association and American Association of Clinical …

…, VM Montori, SA Rivkees, DS Ross, JA Sosa… - Thyroid, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Background: Thyrotoxicosis has multiple etiologies, manifestations, and potential therapies.
Appropriate treatment requires an accurate diagnosis and is influenced by coexisting …

The importance of surgeon experience for clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy

JA Sosa, HM Bowman, JM Tielsch, NR Powe… - Annals of …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
Sosa and her colleagues document that providing expertise at least in thyroid surgery
appears to be cost-effective and results in fewer complications. The authors studied the results of …

The changing incidence of thyroid cancer

CM Kitahara, JA Sosa - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2016 - nature.com
During the past few decades, the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased substantially in
many countries, including the USA. The rise in incidence seems to be attributable both to the …

Prognosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma: demographic, clinical, and pathologic predictors of survival in 1252 cases

S Roman, R Lin, JA Sosa - … International Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Sosa et al.28 examined outcomes from thyroidectomy based on surgeon and institutional
experience. They found that for patients with the diagnosis of thyroid cancer and for patients …

Importance of hospital volume in the overall management of pancreatic cancer

JA Sosa, HM Bowman, TA Gordon, EB Bass… - Annals of …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
Objective To determine whether hospital volume is associated with clinical and economic
outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent pancreatic resection, palliative …

[HTML][HTML] Vandetanib for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic hereditary medullary thyroid cancer

…, RF Gagel, J Moley, D Pfister, JA Sosa… - Journal of Clinical …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose There is no effective therapy for patients with distant metastasis of medullary thyroid
carcinoma (MTC). Activating mutations in the RET proto-oncogene cause hereditary MTC, …

Health disparities in endocrine disorders: biological, clinical, and nonclinical factors—an Endocrine Society scientific statement

…, TL Gary-Webb, C Kim, JA Sosa… - The Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objective: The aim was to provide a scholarly review of the published literature on biological,
clinical, and nonclinical contributors to race/ethnic and sex disparities in endocrine …