… Metastatic, sporadic, medullary thyroid carcinoma to central lymph nodes anterior to the
trachea. The lymph nodes are enlarged, there is a lack of fatty hilum and microcalcifications, and …

… Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neuroendocrine malignancy of the thyroid C cells. …
The patient had multifocal hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma with small bilateral nodal …

… Lymph node metastases have been proven to be the main prognostic factor in medullary
thyroid carcinoma … two surgical techniques of regional lymph node dissection with regard to the …

… Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare malignancy with several features that distinguish
it from other thyroid … to cure than differentiated thyroid cancer and has higher rates of …

… standard treatment for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC)… lymph nodes removed (lymph
node yield, LNY) and the proportion of metastatic lymph nodes resected (metastatic lymph node …

… Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare disease derived from parafollicular cells (C cells);
it accounts for 3·5–10 per cent of all thyroid … do not predict lymph node involvement 3 , 4 . …

… It should be noted that the rate of occult metastasis to the lymph nodes is high and lymph
nodes involvement is an accurate predictor of outcome. Surgeons must dissect lymph nodes in …

… 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 …

… Fifty-five percent of patients had cervical lymph node dissection: 85.3% had central neck
lymph node dissection and 14.7% had both central neck and modified radical neck dissection. …

… However we did not find that the existence of cervical lymph node involvement conferred
a bad prognosis, and the survival of patients with cervical lymph node metastasis is not …