Background: Although the importance of tumor size in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is well
established, there is no research investigating whether age modifies the impact of tumor …

1) Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan 2) Department of Internal
Medicine, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. It is well-known that papillary …

Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. In papillary thyroid
carcinoma (PTC), extrathyroid extension (Ex) and clinical lymph node metastasis (N) …

Objective To study the relationship between primary tumour size and the risk of advanced
disease features (multifocal or locally invasive disease, lymph‐node or distant metastases) …

Background The association between thyroid nodules and adiposity remains controversial.
We performed a cross-sectional, community-based study to examine whether thyroid …

The incidence of thyroid cancer has risen over the past decade, along with a rise in obesity.
We studied the role of anthropometric risk factors for differentiated thyroid cancer at the time …

Purpose. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of thyroid nodules (TNs)
and their ultrasound (US) characteristics related to malignancy with metabolic status …