… papillary thyroid carcinoma [1.2]. Although most agree on some form of surgery for the primary
lesion, the extent of surgery … thyroid hormone in controlling the disease following surgery. …

… The primary outcomes of the current systematic review and meta-analysis were identification
of the annual pooled rates of tumor size enlargement of 3 mm or more and lymph node …

… in the incidence of papillary thyroid cancer in the contralateral lobe. If we had managed a
65-year-old patient who had an incidental 5-mm papillary thyroid cancer in the ipsilateral lobe …

Opinion statement Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), the most common thyroid malignancy, is
associated with an excellent prognosis. Overall survival is more than 90%. The first-line …

… Analysis of the patients with stage I papillary and mixed papillary cancer according to the
extent of surgery also showed no difference in survival. There were 31 patients who had …

… (level V), as they are most proximal to the thyroid gland [3,7]. At the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF), our therapeutic LND usually includes levels III, IV en bloc and levels I, …

… surgical extent and … extent of surgery and prognosis in patients with early-stage, node-negative
PTCI. We also evaluated whether tumor size significantly influenced the extent of surgery …

… of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), the 2009 and 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA…
Thyroid cancers with unknown histology, size, or nodal/metastasis extension were excluded…

… regarding the treatment of small papillary cancers. Therefore, we … for papillary thyroid
cancer. In addition, we sought to establish a tumor size threshold beyond which papillary cancers …

… Surgical treatment continues to be the main therapeutic procedure in differentiated thyroid
cancer… depend on the adequacy of the initial surgery. For many years, total thyroidectomy (TT) …