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Sebastiano Filetti

Sebastiano Filetti

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Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
23657
World Ranking
16671
National Ranking
667

Overview

Sebastiano Filetti is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on endocrinology, oncology, surgery, radiology, and genetics. Their body of research primarily addresses topics surrounding thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment, along with related areas such as BRCA gene mutations in cancer, head and neck anomalies, and advances in radiomics and machine learning applied to medical imaging.

Among the recent publications authored by Filetti are the following:

  • ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline update on the use of systemic therapy in advanced thyroid cancer (2022, Annals of Oncology)
  • Real-World Performance of the American Thyroid Association Risk Estimates in Predicting 1-Year Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Outcomes: A Prospective Multicenter Study of 2000 Patients (2020, Thyroid)
  • Clinical epigenetics settings for cancer and cardiovascular diseases: real-life applications of network medicine at the bedside (2021, Clinical Epigenetics)
  • Multimodal Feature Fusion and Knowledge-Driven Learning via Experts Consult for Thyroid Nodule Classification (2021, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology)
  • The role of FOSL1 in stem-like cell reprogramming processes (2021, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaborators of Filetti include:

  • Cosimo Durante
  • Giorgio Grani
  • Marialuisa Sponziello
  • Antonella Verrienti
  • Valeria Pecce

The principal venues in which Filetti has published work are:

  • Endocrine
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • Thyroid
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Cancers

The main subfields associated with Filetti's research output include:

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Oncology
  • Surgery
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Genetics

Key topics of their research encompass:

  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Head and Neck Anomalies
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging

Best Publications

  • Thyroid cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up†.

    S Filetti;C Durante;D Hartl;D Hartl;S Leboulleux;S Leboulleux

  • Liraglutide versus sitagliptin for patients with type 2 diabetes who did not have adequate glycaemic control with metformin: a 26-week, randomised, parallel-group, open-label trial

    Richard E Pratley;Michael Nauck;Timothy Bailey;Eduard Montanya

  • The Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Nodules: A Review

    Cosimo Durante;Giorgio Grani;Livia Lamartina;Sebastiano Filetti

  • Endogenous Subclinical Hyperthyroidism Affects Quality of Life and Cardiac Morphology and Function in Young and Middle-Aged Patients*

    Bernadette Biondi;Emiliano Antonio Palmieri;Serafino Fazio;Carmela Cosco

  • The natural history of benign thyroid nodules.

    Cosimo Durante;Giuseppe Costante;Giuseppe Lucisano;Rocco Bruno

  • BRAF Mutations in Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas Inhibit Genes Involved in Iodine Metabolism

    C. Durante;E. Puxeddu;E. Ferretti;R. Morisi

  • Expression of the Na+/I- symporter gene in human thyroid tumors: a comparison study with other thyroid-specific genes.

    Vladimir Lazar;Jean Michel Bidart;Bernard Caillou;Cedric Mahé

  • Predictive Value of Serum Calcitonin Levels for Preoperative Diagnosis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Cohort of 5817 Consecutive Patients with Thyroid Nodules

    Giuseppe Costante;Domenico Meringolo;Cosimo Durante;Davide Bianchi

  • Increased aggressiveness of thyroid cancer in patients with Graves' disease

    Antonino Belfiore;Maria Rita Garofalo;Dario Giuffrida;Filippo Runello

  • Sodium/iodide symporter: a key transport system in thyroid cancer cell metabolism.

    Sebastiano Filetti;Jean Michel Bidart;Franco Arturi;Bernard Caillou

  • Adenovirus-mediated Transfer of the Thyroid Sodium/Iodide Symporter Gene into Tumors for a Targeted Radiotherapy

    Anne Boland;Marcel Ricard;Paule Opolon;Jean Michel Bidart

  • One year of liraglutide treatment offers sustained and more effective glycaemic control and weight reduction compared with sitagliptin, both in combination with metformin, in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomised, parallel‐group, open‐label trial

    R. Pratley;M. Nauck;T. Bailey;E. Montanya

  • Clinically Guided Genetic Screening in a Large Cohort of Italian Patients with Pheochromocytomas and/or Functional or Nonfunctional Paragangliomas

    Massimo Mannelli;Maurizio Castellano;Francesca Schiavi;Sebastiano Filetti

  • Subclinical hyperthyroidism: clinical features and treatment options

    Bernadette Biondi;Emiliano Antonio Palmieri;Michele Klain;Martin Schlumberger

  • Follow-up of low risk patients with papillary thyroid cancer: role of neck ultrasonography in detecting lymph node metastases.

    Massimo Torlontano;Marco Attard;Umberto Crocetti;Salvatore Tumino

  • Papillary thyroid cancer: time course of recurrences during postsurgery surveillance

    Cosimo Durante;Teresa Montesano;Massimo Torlontano;Marco Attard

  • Na+/I- symporter distribution in human thyroid tissues : An immunohistochemical study

    Bernard Caillou;Frédéric Troalen;Eric Baudin;Monique Talbot

  • Thyroid-hormone therapy and thyroid cancer: a reassessment.

    Bernadette Biondi;Sebastiano Filetti;Martin Schlumberger

  • Reducing the Number of Unnecessary Thyroid Biopsies While Improving Diagnostic Accuracy: Toward the “Right” TIRADS

    Giorgio Grani;Livia Lamartina;Valeria Ascoli;Daniela Bosco

  • Iodide symporter gene expression in human thyroid tumors

    Franco Arturi;Diego Russo;Martin Schlumberger;Jean Antoine Du Villard

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Damante
Giuseppe Damante University of Udine
Martin Schlumberger
Martin Schlumberger University of Paris-Saclay
Riccardo Vigneri
Riccardo Vigneri University of Catania
Basil Rapoport
Basil Rapoport University of California, San Francisco
Elisabetta Ferretti
Elisabetta Ferretti Sapienza University of Rome
Giovanni Tallini
Giovanni Tallini University of Bologna
Gianluca Tell
Gianluca Tell University of Udine
Emanuela Arvat
Emanuela Arvat University of Turin
Michele Navarra
Michele Navarra University of Messina
Bruno Dallapiccola
Bruno Dallapiccola Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital

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