Abstract Background and Objectives: The clinical characteristics and patient outcome of a
group of patients treated for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) were analyzed in order to …

Background Patients younger than 55 years of age with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)
have excellent survival. Diffuse sclerosing variant (DSV) and tall cell variant (TCV) of PTC …

Background The prognosis of poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas (PDTC) is
heterogeneous though generally poor. The objectives of this study were to identify clinical …

Background The diffuse sclerosing (DSV) and tall cell (TCV) variants are considered
aggressive subtypes of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) for which data are limited. Methods …

The influence of various pathological features on tumour recurrences and cancer deaths has
been studied in 173 consecutive cases of surgically treated papillary thyroid carcinoma …

BACKGROUND Different scoring systems currently are being used to stratify patients with
differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) into risk groups. DTC is usually subdivided into …

Objective The incidence of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has increased in recent years
and its treatment remains controversial. The objective of this study is to identify …

Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is one of the most common metabolic disorders and
accounts for 98% of all cases of thyroid cancer. Previously, a number of studies have …

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

Background: Our understanding of the natural history of differentiated thyroid carcinoma has
improved with the definition of prognostic factors. These prognostic factors have helped us …