… carcinoma is frequently an incidental finding at the time of … in the United States, we presently
have detected about 4.3% of … in 2008, which includes 900 patients with an average follow-…

… However, despite the favorable long-term prognosis, cases of locoregional recurrences and
… In general, recurrence of cancer is not frequently observed following thyroidectomy for PTMC…

… required number of thyroid surgeons to operate these cases. This … mPTC are detected in the
postoperative period. A French … study of 7,818 papillary microcarcinoma patients reported a …

… -term recurrence-free survival following both total thyroidectomy and lobectomy surgery in
patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma… We also observed heterogeneity across studies, …

… In a research carried out on 900 patients with a 60 years … In a study about 281 PTMC, Cho
found that tumors larger than … In a long-term follow-up study, Lee et al. reported thyroidectomy …

… Cancer-specific death from PTMC has been rarely reported, so … cancer-related death in
some cases as reported in several … Numerous studies containing long-term follow-up data on …

… demonstrated in long-term outcome studies and in other … and the numbers of new thyroid
cancer cases all over the world … Likely in the following years, we will observe a decline in the …

… the patients diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and papillary thyroid … Papillary
thyroid microcarcinoma: a study of 900 cases observed in a 60-year period. Surgery. 2008;…

… Our study has some limitations and the results reported here … with long-term follow-up. We
used two databases in this … in this study, the disease seems indolent in most cases and active …

… analysis in our study. We observed that multifocality increased the risk of LNM by 1.737
times. … [26] followed 164 PTMC patients for a mean duration of 73.4 months and reported no …