Local recurrence in papillary thyroid carcinoma: is extent of surgical resection important?

CS Grant, ID Hay, IR Gough, EJ Bergstralh… - Surgery, 1988 - surgjournal.com
From a multivariate analysis of more than 20,600 patient-years' experience with papillary
thyroid carcinoma (PTC), we devised a prognostic scoring system based on patient age,
tumor grade, extent, and size (AGES). This scoring system was used as an adjustment
variable for analyzing the role of different types of surgical treatment in the development of
local recurrence (LR) in 963 PTC patients who underwent unilateral (15%), bilateral
subtotal/near-total (69%), or total thyroidectomies (16%) from 1946 through 1975 at the …
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