Aims: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is classified into two subgroups—common type and
other histological variants. Correlations between further subgrouping of the common type …

Many histological variants of PTC have been described and some are known to have
prognostic significance. However, their relative frequencies and associated …

BACKGROUND Papillary thyroid carcinomas represent a diversity of morphologic subtypes
and variants, but to the authors' knowledge the prognostic significance of subclassification is …

Two hundred and sixty‐three cases of primary human papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)
were analyzed. All cases met the following parameters: tumor size≥ 10 mm, no distant …

Background Numerous prognostic factors have been studied for survival in patients with
papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), although there are few multivariate studies that include …

1) Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan 2) Department of Internal
Medicine, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. It is well-known that papillary …

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 …

We performed this study to compare the clinicopathologic features and outcomes between
the patients with poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma (PDTC) and the patients with the …

A retrospective analysis of 183 papillary thyroid carcinomas was made in order to assess the
prognostic factors related to survival. The following factors were found to adversely affect the …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancy, and has an excellent
prognosis, even with cervical lymph node metastasis; however, histological variants are …