… Background: Prophylactic central neck dissection (CND) has been proposed in the treatment
of patients affected by papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with clinically negative neck lymph …

… Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) has become the fastest growing malignancy worldwide
over … iodine (RAI) therapy,4 and the role and extent of central neck dissection (CND).5, 6 …

… Methods The charts of 522 consecutive patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma
were reviewed, and 74 patients who had undergone a neck dissection were identified. The …

… neck dissection and total thyroidectomy are standard treatments for patients with papillary
thyroid carcinoma … However, prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) in patients with …

… Management of the lateral neck in well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) remains a
… if patients with WDTC who undergo lateral neck dissection (LND) have significantly different …

Objective To ascertain whether modified radical neck dissection offers a survival advantage
for some subsets of patients with papillary cancer of the thyroid. Design A retrospective …

… The current surgical procedure is modified neck dissection with removal of the lymph nodes
at levels II, III, IV, and V. The incidence of nodal metastasis in thyroid carcinoma at level I (…

… the effects of neck dissection on disease-free survival. … neck dissection in patients with
papillary thyroid carcinoma … the decision to perform central neck dissection that could act as …

… with or without central compartment dissection (CCD) for thyroid carcinoma at the University
of … Patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma and follicular thyroid carcinoma were excluded. …

The continued growth of radiographic diagnostic modalities has led to a tremendous increase
in the number of patients diagnosed with thyroid nodules. 1 Most of these are smaller than …