The majority of patients who present with well differentiated thyroid cancer will require
surgery, but decisions on the appropriate primary procedure will depend on information …

Differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) are seen with increasing incidence in clinical practice.
These tumours have good prognosis and the extent of surgery can be tailored to the size …

Background Surgical resection is the key to management of thyroid cancer, but determining
the optimal surgical procedure for individual cases has been controversial. Methods The …

The debate regarding the surgical management of low‐risk differentiated thyroid cancer
(DTC) is ongoing. The recommended extent of surgery in DTC is based on an assessment of …

Objective To analyze all the most recent guidelines/consensus as well as papers regarding
the relationship between size of tumor, type of surgery, and prognosis, and to try to produce …

Simple Summary Total thyroidectomy used to be recommended for all thyroid cancers. We
now know that some thyroid cancers have a relatively low risk of recurrence. Today, for …

When the subject of the extent surgery for well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) was last
reviewed in Surgical Clinics of North America, Dackiw and Zeiger noted that it continued to …

There has been a long debate about the optimal surgical management of differentiated
thyroid cancer. It has focused on the extent of thyroidectomy, with recommendations ranging …

The incidence of well-differentiated thyroid cancer has seen a worldwide increase in the last
three decades. Whether this is due to a 'true increase'in incidence or simply increased …

Introduction: Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer has become less aggressive but for many
patients, the threshold for performing total thyroidectomy (TT), as opposed to thyroid …