… incidence, current practice guidelines, controversies in the management of thyroid resection
and management of central neck lymph nodes, alternative methods of treatment, and …

… We retrospectively identified all patients diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma who …
, 2013 at the Thyroid Cancer Center of Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. …

… of papillary thyroid cancer patients, central neck lymph node metastasis occurs. As a result,
prophylactic central neck lymph … and prophylactic central neck lymph node dissection is still …

… ) metastases are common in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), and they have
a … This is a major issue because PTC patients with clinically negative neck lymph nodes have …

… PTC with clinically uninvolved central neck lymph nodes (cN0) who have advanced primary
tumors (T3 or T4) or clinically involved lateral neck nodes (cN0) who have advanced primary …

… Clearly, patients with positive DLN are more likely to have other central compartment positive
nodes, indicating that total thyroidectomy with central neck lymph node dissection is the …

… neck recurrence in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma with no ultrasonographic and/or …
, if it was not previously performed, when lateral neck lymph node metastases are found. …

… The sensitivity and specificity of US in predicting papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) … clinically
involved central or lateral neck lymph nodes to provide clearance of disease. In patients with …

… papillary thyroid cancer are exposure to ionizing radiation and a family history of thyroid cancer
[2]. … Figure 1 demonstrates the detailed neck lymph node mapping used at our institution. …

… neck lymph nodes who have advanced primary tumors (T3 or T4) or clinically involved lateral
neck nodes. However, lateral neck dissection was suggested to be performed for patients …