… Last, we used the 18 F-FDG PET to rule out the distant metastasis. … Lobectomy was defined
as the removal of the involved lobe, … Two or more PTC foci within the thyroid was defined as …

… involvement of the contralateral lobe it was considered to be unilateral. Multifocality was defined
as two or more tumor foci within the thyroid… of metastasis in patients with one and two foci…

… of involved lymph nodes (including the size of the metastatic … to solid tumour deposits within
intraglandular lymphatics. … , many clinical organizations with a specific interest in thyroid …

… ' suspected clinically apparent multiple or bulky lymph node involvement, and preoperative
… about whether tumor multifocality in PTC represented the intraglandular spread of a single …

… two tumor foci should be regarded as the predictive factor of central lymph node metastasis,
but the role … with a common clonal origin, which is associated with intraglandular metastasis [ …

… Papillary thyroid carcinomas may occur as two or more … metastasis from a single focus and
such tumors are likely to be … the incidence of bilateral involvement and predictive factors for …

… nodes, and lymphatic involvement primarily occurs in the … of intraglandular metastasis of
a single primary tumor through … PTCs often arise as multiple tumor foci in the thyroid gland. …

… Among the 73 cases, 56 cases involved cervical regional lymph node metastasis (76.7%).
None of the patients … Many of them form branched papillary structures were found in the other …

… to the lateral lymph nodes without the involvement of the … among papillary thyroid
microcarcinomas with multiple tumor … tumor intraglandular spread and multifocal in the present …

… the multiple foci may arise from either intraglandular metastases or multiple independent …
Whether these multifocal neoplasms are caused by multiple primary neoplasms arising from …