Differentiated thyroid cancers have become one of the fastest growing malignancies in the
world. While surgery has remained the cornerstone of management of these tumors, the …

When the subject of the extent surgery for well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) was last
reviewed in Surgical Clinics of North America, Dackiw and Zeiger noted that it continued to …

Objective To review the terminology and controversy regarding the performance of
prophylactic lymph node dissection for patients without evidence suggestive of pathologic …

The age-old debate about hemithyroidectomy versus total thyroidectomy for the treatment of
papillary thyroid cancer has now been replaced by the modern debate about prophylactic …

Thyroid cancer is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system and its incidence
has dramatically increased over the past three decades. Well-differentiated thyroid cancers …

In the last decades, a surprising increased incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC),
along with a precocious diagnosis of “small” tumors and microcarcinomas have been …

Introduction: Papillary and follicular thyroid carcinomas are the most common thyroid
malignancies and are usually indolent. Lymph-node involvement increases the rate of tumor …

Background There are 3 compartments of regional lymph nodes to which thyroid carcinoma
metastasizes: central, lateral, and mediastinal compartments. The central compartment is the …

Background Well-differentiated thyroid cancer includes the most common type of thyroid
cancer, papillary, as well as follicular and Hürthle cell cancers. Other thyroid cancers include …

Total thyroidectomy (TT) is the standard of care for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), but
still there is no consensus about the role of routine use of prophylactic central lymph node …