… documents the structural recurrence rates in a large group of patients with PTC and illustrates
the anatomical distribution of these locoregional recurrences. Overall the recurrence rate …

… local treatments structural recurrence in … of disease that Gagel was referring to when he
stated that 40-50% of patients who die of thyroid carcinoma do so because of recurrent disease …

… Definition of structural recurrence The outcome of this study was structural recurrence that
occurred during follow-up after initial thyroid surgery. According to the 2015 ATA guidelines [3]…

… of PTC by examining the association of aggressive characteristics at presentation,
structural recurrence, and disease-related mortality of PTC with the presence of coexistent HT. …

… of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), subsets of patients suffer from structural recurrence
after … This study evaluated the timing and patterns of recurrence in completely resected PTC …

… thyroid cancer has a favorable prognosis, up to 20% of patients experienced recurrent disease
… and factors associated with recurrence and outcomes of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in …

… , increase in growth of mass or lymph nodes, or invasion of surrounding structures. Time to
… disease. This observation highlights that the problem of recurrent disease in thyroid cancer, …

… -up in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is based … of the 20th century when recurrence
rates were approximately 20… recurrences and final outcome of patients without structural …

… for Recurrence and Follow-Up In this study, recurrence was defined as structural recurrence,
excluding new lesions in residual thyroid gland, included recurrence in thyroidectomy bed, …

… did not show active structural and/or biochemical disease were … , recurrence and papillary
thyroid cancer (PTC)-free outcomes. The probability of PTC relapse (persistence or recurrence…