… Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common thyroid malignancy, and metastatic spread
involving lymph nodes of the central neck is common. The role of prophylactic CLND for PTC …

… neck lymph nodes in papillary thyroid carcinoma by 18F-2–deoxyglucose positron
emission tomography, and Tc-99m tetrofosmin single photon emission computed tomography. …

… lymph-node dissection (LND) influences the lymph-node recurrence (LNR) risk in patients
with papillary thyroid cancer … The prognostic impact of macroscopic and microscopic lymph-…

… Apart from this, morbidity from neck dissection in the setting of papillary thyroid cancer
remains high, particularly when performed in the setting of a thyroidectomy. To this end, the …

… papillary thyroid carcinoma involved the lateral neck. The central compartment frequently
showed lymph … Skip lesions (involvement of lateral lymph nodes but not central lymph nodes) …

… a lateral neck dissection (LND) for papillary thyroid carcinoma between … a neck US and
those with nonpapillary thyroid carcinoma … , and final lymph node pathology. A modified radical …

… neck. Literature on the pattern of lymph node metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma
is … formulation of strategies on how best to manage a clinically positive neck would be dif®cult. …

… of central and lateral neck lymph node metastases was undertaken in 88 patients with
untreated papillary thyroid cancer who underwent compartment-oriented lymph node dissection in …

… cancers. The most common type is papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), which is associated
with a high rate of metastases (and micrometastases) to the cervical lymph nodes—from 30% …

… Our analysis is not meant to advocate for strict PCLND per se for all low- and intermediate-risk
tumors, nor do we advocate for extensive central neck dissections for all patients; instead, …