Background Lobectomy is not advocated for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with high-risk
features, although there is no high-level evidence showing that this is an inferior strategy …

Hypothesis The prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma has been stratified into low-and
high-risk groups. Patients in the high-risk group can be substratified on the basis of …

There has been a long, unresolved debate regarding the operation of choice for well
differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid. We therefore analyzed the feasibility, scope, sample …

OBJECTIVE: To compare the total thyroidectomy or subtotal resection and gland lobe and
isthmus lobectomy as initial treatment to TNM stage I and II differentiated thyroid cancer. The …

Surgical treatment of well differentiated carcinomas of the thyroid gland remains a discussed
topic and there is still no evidence of global and total harmony in the appropriate surgical …

Background The extent of surgery for well‐differentiated thyroid cancer remains
controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the type of resection, age, T …

Background Low-risk differentiated thyroid cancers may, according to the American Thyroid
Association (ATA) 2015 guidelines, be managed initially with lobectomy. However, definitive …

Impact of nodal involvement in papillary thyroid cancer remains controversial. The incidence
of nodal metastases is high and the presence of involved nodes has a negative impact on …

Background: The well recognized prognostic factors in differentiated carcinoma of the
thyroid are age, grade, extracapsular extension, distant metastasis, and size of the tumor …

From a multivariate analysis of more than 14,200 patient-years' experience with papillary
thyroid carcinoma (PTC), we devised a prognostic scoring system based on patient age …