… (DTC) is controversial with respect to extent of thyroid resection, extent and technique of …
results with respect to lymph node status and dissection in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). …

… procedure is one in which only the clinically enlarged lymph nodes thought to harbor metastatic
thyroid cancer … The indications for the various surgical approaches to LND, and the role …

… lymph-node dissection More than in other solid tumors, the surgical strategy for thyroid
cancer must reconcile two conflicting principles: (1) tumor extirpation, which is required for local …

… tumor is established, metastasis to regional lymph nodes occurs earlier than in differentiated
thyroid cancer.5, 6 Lymph nodes in … intraoperative lymph node assessment by the surgeon …

… from a total of 728 patients with thyroid cancer treated at the … surgery due to papillary thyroid
carcinoma performed in our hospital. Histologic classification of papillary thyroid carcinoma …

… to lymph node excision is that the presence of node metastases … between node metastases
and death from thyroid carcinoma. … on surgery of lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid cancer …

… In the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), in absence of enlarged lymph nodes,
… Central neck lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid cancer: the reliability of surgeon …

… Follicular carcinoma metastasizes predominantly to distant or… papillary carcinoma shows
a high incidence of lymph node … of regional lymph nodes to which thyroid carcinoma can …

… disease in PTC range from ‘berry picking’ to selective lymph node … nodes as evidenced
by lower recurrence and is generally preferred when managing lymph nodes in thyroid cancer…

… Our data demonstrate lymph node metastases to be a significant prognostic factor for … plus
central lymph node dissection as the basic surgical strategy. For T3 and T4 tumors, unilateral …