… SUBJECTS AND METHODS: From 2000 to 2005, 2709 patients underwent a total
thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma in our department. Patients were divided into three …

… Thyroid cancer is the most common malignancy in endocrine system, composed of four
major types; papillary thyroid carcinoma, follicular thyroid … to 3 categories; multiple endocrine …

… genes differentiating between papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and normal thyroid tissue and
… patients (23 PTC patients and 10 patients with other thyroid disease). In the initial group of 16 …

… The Clinical Class system was developed in the 1980s from a cohort of 269 PTC patients …
Patients were categorized into 4 classes based on the anatomic extent of the primary tumor. It …

… up to 36% of thyroids examined, suggesting that most of them never reach clinical evidence,
4,5,20,21,22 and the third is the relatively indolent course of most papillary thyroid cancers. …

… Papillary microcarcinoma (PMC) of the thyroid is defined as papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)
with a diameter ≤ 1.0 cm according to the World Health Organization (WHO) histologic …

… Other molecular markers such as HMGA2 and insulin-like growth factor II mRNA … separate
papillary thyroid carcinoma and its variants from follicular adenomas and other benign thyroid …

… were histologically divided into two different growth pattern categories; namely, expansive …
in many other cancers but has been neglected thus far in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer; our …

… We have analyzed the course of papillary thyroid carcinoma in 269 patients managed at the
… high risk categories One patient of 128 in class I died of thyroid cancer. Three of 152 with a …

… for “low risk thyroid cancer “and “low risk papillary thyroid cancer”. We … included patients with
low risk thyroid cancer as well as reviews, … Three distinctly different kinds of papillary thyroid …