… of the extent of primary tumors and lymph node metastasis of PTC. … Thyroid Association call
for preoperative ultrasound imaging of the neck for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer […

… . Level IIb lymph node metastasis in neck dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma. Arch
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2007;133:1028–30.doi:10.1001/archotol.133.10.1028pmid:http://…

… : “ultrasonography or sonography or ultrasound or echotomography” and “thyroid neoplasm
or thyroid carcinoma or thyroid cancer or thyroid tumor or thyroid tumour” and “papillary” and …

… , the subgroup of papillary thyroid carcinoma patients, and the subgroup of patients with
papillary thyroid carcinoma who underwent a revision neck dissection. US = ultrasound; PPV = …

… cervical neck dissection (213 central and 73 central and lateral)for papillary thyroid carcinoma
… patients had preoperative neck ultrasound and complete files were included in this study. …

… disease and lymph node metastases in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid by comparing MRI
with ultrasound (US) of the neck. … of papillary thyroid carcinoma cervical nodal disease: CT …

… All these studies were performed by radiologists specializing in cervical ultrasonography at
… of neck levels VI and VII as described by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) (…

… a lateral neck dissection (LND) for papillary thyroid carcinoma … a neck US and those with
nonpapillary thyroid carcinoma were … neck dissection included levels II to V, a selective neck …

… and ultrasound assessment after total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer we recommend
preoperative ultrasound … Neck dissection of the compartments in which pathologic nodes …

… to evaluate the lateral neck in patients with papillary cancer. We hypothesize that surgeon-…
ultrasound is a reliable method of evaluating the lateral neck to stage papillary thyroid cancer…