Background The impact of clinically or radiologically detected nodal metastases on survival
in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is controversial but seems more important and …

AIMS: To examine lymph node metastasis (LNM) from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)
according to clinicopathological features and outcomes associated with the nodal status …

Background Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) frequently recurs to the lymph nodes, which
may not be fatal immediately but is a stressor for physicians and patients. Recurrence to the …

Purpose Cervical lymph node metastases are recognized as a prognostic indicator only in
patients age 45 years or older with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC); patients younger than age …

Purpose Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has good prognosis with a very low chance of
mortality. The prognostic role of metastatic lymph node location was judged controversial …

BACKGROUND: Several factors have been proven to be useful for classifying patients with
papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) into either low-or high-risk groups. However, the relative …

Background Lymph node metastasis (LNM) occurs frequently in young papillary thyroid
carcinoma (PTC) patients, though the mortality rates are low. We aimed to analyze the …

We studied the records of 342 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma out of a total of 728
thyroid cancer patients treated at the Medical School of Hannover (MHH) from 1972 through …

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to retrospectively analyze the
features of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) presenting with neck lymph node …

Objective To determine the relationship between age and rate of lymph node metastasis,
nodal burden of disease, as well as rate of lateral neck disease in papillary thyroid cancer …