… The extent of surgery and the final histological diagnosis was reviewed. The … thyroid
cancer concluded that total thyroidectomy in high risk patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (…

… diagnosis and surgical approach to thyroid cancer. The design of … Timing and extent of
surgery for gene carriers of hereditary C-… thyroid cancer, the most frequent type of thyroid cancer …

… ing and extent of surgery may depend … thyroid cancer, however, the value of the sentinel
lymph node is less clear. The success rate in identifying a sentinel lymph node in thyroid cancer …

… [14] used decision analysis and a Markov model to simulate such a study in order to identify
the optimal extent of surgery for low- and high-risk patients with papillary thyroid cancer. …

… Instead, at multivariate statistical analysis, only (a) patient's age at initial diagnosis, (b)
disease stage, and (c) the extent of surgery resulted as significant and independent prognostic …

… for less then 5% of all thyroid cancer [1]. The biological … the extent of surgery for a well-differentiated
thyroid cancer … controversy regarding the initial extent of surgery. Some surgeons …

… Histologic subtypes of papillary thyroid cancer affect prognosis. The objective of this study
… by extent of surgery for conventional versus follicular-variant papillary thyroid cancer when …

… Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is a common malignancy with increasing incidence in the
United States (1). While disease-specific mortality is low in patients with PTC, persistent and …

… The American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines for the management of thyroid
cancer were last published in 2006 and updated in 2009. They list several goals of therapy. …

… In the high-risk group, one must be aggressive regarding the extent of surgery, and this
should include not only total thyroidectomy but also removal of all extrathyroidal disease and …