BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic factors for local failure
and cause specific survival in differentiated thyroid carcinoma and the impact of surgery …

Objective To study the prognostic factors in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
Design Retrospective analysis. Setting University hospital, Germany. Patients 139 …

This study analyzed the impact of prognostic variables of age, sex, histopathological
diagnosis, extent of disease at diagnosis, and surgical intervention on well differentiated …

All cases of thyroid cancer reported to the Finnish Cancer Registry in 1958–62 were re‐
examined histologically; 227 cases of thyroid carcinoma were found. The correlation …

Data from 576 patients with papillary thyroid cancer were retrospectively analyzed. With a
median follow-up of 10 years and three months, there were six deaths from, and 84 …

Since 1975, the American Cancer Society, Illinois Division, has published end results of
major cancer sites drawn from patient data contributed voluntarily by hospital cancer …

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

We have analyzed the course of papillary thyroid carcinoma in 269 patients managed at the
University of Chicago, with an average follow-up period of 12 yr from the time of diagnosis …

Of 514 patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma treated between 1970 and 1987, 34
(6.6%) had distant metastases. Twelve patients died of their distant metastases; eight of …

The clinical outcome in 155 patients with papillary or follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland
operated on over a 25-year period demonstrated no difference in survival rates or incidence …