… the performance of preoperative ultrasonography (US) in the … the staging of PTC because of
its feasibility and high sensitivity… Ultrasonography images show representative cases of each …

… To evaluate the performance of preoperative ultrasound in … the high incidence of central
CLNM of PTC. At the same time, … higher mortality, particularly in patients with stage I disease [39]. …

… performances of CT and ultrasound are similar, though CT and … with papillary thyroid cancer),
63 case reports or series containing <… . Preoperative staging of papillary thyroid carcinoma: …

… thyroid cancer has lately increased by 3% annually, with increases noted in the incidence of
advanced-stage papillary thyroid cancer … are the relatively large series of nodules evaluated …

… qualification and diagnostic performance metrics such as … , meta-regression analysis did not
show any significant results. The … testing accuracy of US versus CT staging, our study is the …

… PTMC, both for the initial staging and during the subsequent … Normal cervical lymph nodes
may show minimal central hilar … surveillance for known thyroid cancer, this condition is not …

… the tumour node metastasis stage and indicate risk stratification … data about prophylactic
CLND in a large series of patients, its … Considering that the diagnostic performance of our model …

… microcarcinoma (PTMC) was defined as small thyroid tumors … (1) All patients in our series
underwent neck ultrasound … nodules, we selected the largest nodule to calculate the abutment …

… into the early stage group (n=76) and the advanced stage group (… The data show that the
incidence of thyroid carcinoma … of high-resolution probes, the resolution of ultrasound detection …

… it was agreed that thyroid cancer should be staged according to the 8th … and trachea having
the highest diagnostic performance for … In conclusion, sonography is considered beneficial to …