… clinicopathological predictive factors of tumour recurrence. … to the greater number of papillary
thyroid carcinomas (PTC) … biopsy in patients with suspected thyroid diseases 1 . Excellent …

… risk factor for PTC (21). It is interesting that in our large study, HDL-C might act as a protective
factor for thyroid cancer. … with a higher risk of thyroid cancer, especially in a metabolically …

… In an attempt to establish a more accurate definition of prognostic factors for PTC patients
and to evaluate the biological characteristics, several predictive scoring systems have been …

… We identified several predictive factors for CLNM in cN0 PTC patients. Some certain risk
factors could be considered in preoperative clinical decision regarding the necessity of …

… thyroid gland at the Toronto Hospital. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence
of contralaterality of papillary thyroid cancer … dise case in the contralateral thyroid lobe. …

… papillary thyroid cancer in patients with BTG, stating that PCb is … an intermediate stage in the
development of thyroid cancer. … factors and overall prognosis in papillary thyroid carcinoma. …

… Tumor size was always considered as an important predictive factor for cervical lymph node
… Ahn et al [18] showed that tumor size≥1 cm was the risk factor for CLNM, while Yan et al [17…

… Bilateral papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) requires aggressive … the prevalence of and
predictive factors for occult bilateral … between the predicting factors and the presence of cancer in …

… of such a finding (necrosis) was so high that we had to remove it from the multivariate
analysis; otherwise, necrosis would be the only significantly predictive factor for any outcome. …

… The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance and predictive factors
of extrathyroidal extension of papillary thyroid carcinoma based on preoperative sonography…