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 …

Hypothesis The prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma has been stratified into low-and
high-risk groups. Patients in the high-risk group can be substratified on the basis of …

Background Our original system for risk group classification for predicting cause-specific
death from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) defined patients with distant metastasis and …

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

Abstract Background The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) removed
microscopic extrathyroidal extension (ETE) from the 8th edition T staging for papillary thyroid …

Background The optimal extent of thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is
controversial. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of total thyroidectomy or partial …

We have analyzed data on a group of 269 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma followed
on average for 12 years to determine (1) if a prognostic classification scheme can be used to …

Objective To further understanding of treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Design
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program database was searched for …

Background Histologic subtypes of papillary thyroid cancer affect prognosis. The objective of
this study was to examine whether survival is affected by extent of surgery for conventional …

Background Intense disease surveillance and frequent lymph node metastases (LNMs) in
papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) have resulted in increased locoregional recurrences. We …