… The LN metastasis may affect the survival especially in patients older than 45 years of
age [8, 9]. LN metastasis is in the central compartment in 40–60% of patients [10]. …

… The relationship between survival and the extent of primary treatment is another debated …
of initial surgery on the central neck compartment seems not to affect long-term survival. This …

… -free survival (RFS), central neck RFS and disease-specific … central neck dissection (CND)
report rates of subclinical disease of up … about the impact of such microscopic nodal disease. …

… with extensive soft tissue invasion may lead to increased regional failure but has no effect on
survival… thyroid cancer patients, where less aggressive surgery, even allowing for persistent …

… independent predictor of overall survival and cancer-specific survival in some colorectal and
… and neck, in the context of elective neck dissection for oral-cavity squamous-cell carcinoma, …

… papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical
impact of pCND with a large … First, the prevalence of mortality is extremely low in PTC. Second, …

… impact of pCLND on the survival of PTC. Therefore, we carried out this study to detect the
impact of pCLND on the survival … Thyroid cancer-specific survival (TCSS) and overall survival (…

… papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and its clinical impact. We aimed to determine whether
extensive cervical LN dissection … has an independent protective effect regardless of LN status. …

… the prognostic impact of lymph node characteristics in a large, … neck dissection for clinically
N1 classic papillary thyroid … The prognosis of most patients with papillary thyroid cancer (…

… with this more extensive surgery, a determination of the effect that the nodal … the effect that
pCCND has on the rates of locoregional recurrence, disease-free survival, and overall survival…