… Identifying risk factors for neck lymph node metastasis (LNM) in papillary thyroid carcinoma
(PTC) is important for patient prognosis establishment. We conducted a retrospective study …

… Although a previous study investigated the factors predictive … The purpose of this study was
to identify predictive factors of … confounding factors in the assessment of predictive factors for …

… Multifocality had been prompted as a predictor of contralateral thyroid cancer in a number
of studies [14, 15, 19, 20]. Our study confirmed the predictive value of multifocality and found …

… an independent predictor of … predictive factor for contralateral metastases. Similar findings
were observed in a recent prospective study assessing the incidence and predictive factors for …

… on the predictive factors for lymph node metastases in patients with papillary thyroid
microcarcinoma. … carcinoma, and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common subtype …

… predictive value of these risk factors in this study cohort. In addition to investigating the
independent risk factors, we proposed a predictive … most important predictive factor for recurrence. …

… We performed univariate and multivariate analysis to identify predictive factors of RLN
invasion and risk factors of disease recurrence. The abilities of factors in predicting RLN invasion …

… predictive factors for lateral lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with papillary thyroid
… Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) measuring less than 1 cm in its greatest dimension is defined …

… of thyroid could be used as a predictive factor for CLNM. For … Therefore, finding sensitive
predicting factors of CLNM is the focus of … , and discuss the predictive value of these features. …

… We have identified important risk factors predictive of posttreatment recurrence in a large
cohort … Our study has the novelty of predicting recurrence by the postoperative measurement of …