… -specific survival for the cohort of 640 patients treated for papillary thyroid cancer by total
thyroidectomy (TT) with, and without bilateral central neck dissection (CND). P = 0·034 at 10 …

Objective The goal of this article was to describe the optimal individualized surgical
management of patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Methods This summary reviews the …

… Of these, 46 (32.6%) patients underwent total thyroidectomy due to a family history of thyroid
cancer, history of ionizing radiation, hyper- or hypothyroidism, or Hashimoto's thyroiditis. A …

… Mazzaferri offered the perspective that up to 25% of patients with PTC of 1.5 cm or smaller
will have persistent or recurrent disease, whereas the combination of total thyroidectomy and …

… For surgical procedures, prophylactic CLND was performed in all of these studies, and total
thyroidectomy (TT) was the most common surgical type performed in eighteen studies, and …

… cN0 PTC patients was safe and the tumor‑associated recurrence rate following CND plus
total thyroidectomy … conducted for male cN0 PTC patients with a larger tumor size (≥0.5 cm). …

… However, prophylactic CND for cN0 PTC patients remains controversial as these patients …
, who were randomly treated with total thyroidectomy or total thyroidectomy plus CND. These …

… Patients with total thyroidectomy plus bilateral CLND were monitored with a thyroglobulin
examination and Iodine-131 scan. We took both the central and lateral compartment into …

… We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients with PTC who underwent total
thyroidectomy or unilateral thyroid lobectomy between 2006 and 2012 at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, …

… all patients undergoing total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer regardless of
positive … central lymph node dissection in cN0 papillary thyroid carcinoma is still debated[40-45]. …