… proper treatment of lymph node metastases in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. We know
… that when prophylactic lymph node dissections were done, micrometastases were found in …

… the clinically enlarged lymph nodes thought to harbor metastatic thyroid cancer are excised
[… was performed for all patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. This involved levels I to V …

… lymph-node metastases.81, 82 Lateral lymph-node metastases contralateral to the
thyroid tumor are common in head and neck cancer 83 but are rather unusual in well-differentiated …

… Even though occult thyroid cancer is present in many regional lymph nodes [9,10], we do
not advocate … Grossly involved lymph nodes should definitely be removed, however, …

… thyroidectomy plus neck dissection in relation to recurrence. Our data demonstrate lymph
node metastases … We advocate thyroidectomy plus central lymph node dissection as the basic …

… lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma … lymph node metastasis in papillary
thyroid cancer patients: age (<45 years), gender (male), multifocality, tumor size (>1 cm), tumor …

… Having shown that initial lymph node metastases influence the mortality and risk of
recurrence of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma, we evaluated whether the extent of lymph…

… lymph node metastasis (LNM) were evaluated in 35 patients who underwent primary surgery
for papillary thyroid carcinoma… lymph node metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer. Am J …

… ), or medullary (141 of 308 patients) thyroid cancer had nodal metastases in at least 1 lateral
or mediastinal lymph node compartment. These 215 patients formed the study population. …

… true prevalence of lymph node metastasis in thyroid cancer, it … epidemiology of lymph node
metastasis in thyroid cancer. … of nodal metastasis at presentation among the different tumor …