Background Our original system for risk group classification for predicting cause-specific
death from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) defined patients with distant metastasis and …

Hypothesis The prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma has been stratified into low-and
high-risk groups. Patients in the high-risk group can be substratified on the basis of …

Background The optimal extent of thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is
controversial. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of total thyroidectomy or partial …

Background Lobectomy is not advocated for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with high-risk
features, although there is no high-level evidence showing that this is an inferior strategy …

Background. The management of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains
controversial. We used decision analysis to identify the optimal treatment strategy for …

Background Total thyroidectomy (TT) is recommended by guidelines for intermediate-risk
papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) but its survival advantage over lobectomy has not been …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) accounts for over 90% of all thyroid cancers in Japan. The
majority of patients with PTC are categorized into a low-risk group according to the recent …

Background The management of intermediate-risk group of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is
still vague, particularly regarding whether or not total thyroidectomy, postoperative …

Abstract The revised Japan Association of Endocrine Surgeons (JAES)/Japanese Society of
Thyroid Surgery (JSTS) guidelines for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) …

Background Although lobectomy is a viable alternative to total thyroidectomy (TT) in low-risk
1 to 4 cm papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), lobectomy is associated with higher …