… compartment-based’ surgical approaches are defined by the levels and compartments of
cervical lymph nodes … enlarged lymph nodes thought to harbor metastatic thyroid cancer are …

… lymph node ratio in metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma, … compartment metastases
because of the increased risk for recurrence. Lymph node recurrence in the lateral compartment …

… (LN) in PTC patients, we investigated the risk factors for LNM in the central compartment and
lateral compartment by using a large series of patients with surgically proven PTC. Besides, …

… Metastatic central lymph nodes are found in nearly half of all patients with papillary thyroid
cancer when prophylactic central lymph node dissection is performed. With unreliable …

… Furthermore, our data suggest that the lymph node status of the central compartment was
in accordance with that of the lateral compartment in 74.4% of patients. This finding agreed …

… central-compartment lymph node dissection (CLND) in patients with papillary thyroid cancer,
… We set out to assess the incidence of right upper para-esophageal lymph node metastasis …

… The indications for and extent of routine lymph node dissection in patients with papillary thyroid
carcinoma (PTC… Central compartment lymph nodes were divided into right and left central …

… surgical approach to papillary thyroid carcinoma. These patients all had preoperative
ultrasounds to specifically assess for central and lateral compartment lymph node involvement and …

… Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) measuring less than 1 cm in its greatest dimension is defined
as papillary thyroid … with therapeutic central compartment lymph node dissection (LND) and …

… The concern, whether we should remove the ipsilateral central compartment lymph nodes
based on obvious tumor location is also being studied by many investigators, [9, 12–14] and is …