Occasionally in medicine a clinical situation that ap-pears simple on the surface is, in reality,
much more difficult and complex. Such is the case with the common occurrence (estimated …

Thyroid cancer represents the most common endocrine cancer, and rates have been
increasing over the last 3 decades. The treatment of cervical metastases in well …

Cervical lymph node metastases are present in 20% to 50% of patients with differentiated
thyroid cancer (DTC) and 11% to 93% of patients with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). 1–7 …

Papillary thyroid cancer is one of the most common endocrine malignancies, and it is often
associated with an excellent prognosis. However, it has been shown to recur in the lymph …

BACKGROUND The evidence presented was obtained from five evidence-based medicine
level 4 studies. Although cervical metastases occur in a significant number of cases, the …

Context Lymph node metastases (LNM) can be present in 35% of patients with differentiated
thyroid cancer (DTC), and the management of persistent/recurrent nodal disease has been …

Approximately 37,200 people are expected to be diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the
United States this year. 1 Prognosis largely depends on the degree of tumor differentiation …

diagnosed thyroid carcinoma in the United States this year, 80% have papillary carcinoma
and 5s' 10% have follicular carcinoma [1]. These``differentiated carci-nomas''derive from the …

Differentiated thyroid cancer is characterized by an excellent long-term prognosis, which
unlike other head and neck carcinomas, is not influenced definitively by regional lymph …

There is considerable controversy regarding the treatment of patients with cervical
metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer. Most have papillary carcinoma and the main …