… For PTC patients presenting with gross lymph node metastasis (≥cN1), therapeutic
central neck dissection (CND) is universally agreed upon to mitigate the risk of tumor relapse. …

… disease impacted the long-term prognosis or decreased the risk of recurrence. Inasmuch as
a central neck dissection … of a prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) was appropriate. …

… (cN1) at time of diagnosis (including radiographically positive nodal disease), there is … central
neck dissection (tCND). In contrast, for patients with clinically node-negative (cN0) disease, …

… Background: The value of prophylactic central neck dissection (PCND) for papillary
thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with clinically evident lateral cervical lymph node metastases (cN1b) …

Purpose Morbidity due to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is increased mostly due to lymph
node (LN) metastases, which lead to reoperations and complications associated with these …

… Therefore, prophylactic central neck dissection (CND) in … Some surgeons use “pretracheal
central neck dissection” as … and inferior to the level of the thymus gland. Thus nearly 40% of …

… low- to intermediate-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma. The purpose of this meta-analysis was
to evaluate the effect of prophylactic central neck dissection on locoregional recurrence in …

… Therefore, we conducted the analysis not only to cover local recurrence after central neck
dissection, but also to evaluate the effectiveness of (bilateral or ipsilateral) CND +TT and TT …

… carcinomas (T1 and T2), prophylactic central neck dissection is not indicated as it does not
… Prophylactic central neck dissection is indicated in advanced papillary thyroid cancers (T3 …

SciELO - Brasil - Prophylactic central neck dissection and local recurrence in papillary
thyroid microcarcinoma: a meta-analysis Prophylactic central neck dissection and local …