Thyreoglobulin hTG tumor marker

Blood test Thyreoglobulin hTG from serum

Increased: hyperthyroidism, euthyroid goiter, nodular goiter, Graves' disease, autonomic adenoma, thyroiditis de Quervain.

Reduced rash reduced:

Athyroidism (thyroid gland not functioning) ,

Thyreotoxicosis factitia: by ingestion of thyroid hormone tablets (sometimes used to lose weight) often leads to an excessive amount of thyroid hormone in the blood.

Rising thyroglobulin levels as part of follow-up care for thyroid carcinoma are suspect .

The exclusion of interfering thyroglobulin antibodies is recommended. If Tg-Ab is found, the thyroglobulin result is of limited information.

Patients without a diagnosis of thyroid cancer generally do not benefit from measuring thyroglobulin levels

method TRACE
Attention, new normal values! pmol/l 2.4 - 92.0