… This study included 445 patients with PTC who underwent radical thyroid cancer surgery at
… central lymph node dissection; of these, 128 patients underwent further lateral lymph node …

… The lymph node ratio (LNR), which represents the proportion of metastatic lymph nodes …
variable in several cancers, but data for Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) are sparse. The aim …

… Therefore, all the patients in this study had evidence of lateral cervical lymph node
metastasis before surgery, and no patients received prophylactic dissection for lateral cervical …

… -up; and (8) patients who underwent non-curative surgery (residual tumor or lymph node
detected within 6 months of initial surgery). A total of 1,106 patients were included (Figure 1). …

… of metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) from differentiated thyroid carcinomas. … metastatic LNs of
differentiated thyroid carcinomas. … the surgical status of patients and the presence of residual …

… Extrathyroidal extension, number of positive lymph nodes, and low lymph node yield are …
of well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Metastatic lymph node ratio is uncommonly used but can …

… Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common thyroid malignancy with a high tendency
of lymph node … of the multifocal tumor and/or CLNM during primary operation. Therefore, we …

… In good keeping, recursive partitioning analysis of MTC registry data yielded an optimal
metastatic lymph node ratio of 0.60 after removal of 12 and fewer nodes, whereas it was 0.76 …

… by therapeutic CND was significantly higher than prophylactic surgery. (b) Intraoperative
factors. … The appearance of the tumor and lymph nodes presented during operation are more …

… lymph node metastases already at surgery as well as 14.8% of cases had extra-thyroid tumor
… follow-up, in particular when cervical nodes are numerous and even of large volume [37, 42…