1) Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan 2) Department of
Pathology, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. Age is an important prognostic …

Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. Among the several
prognostic factors of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), age is the most prominent. It is well …

Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. Age is an important
prognostic factor in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). In this study, we investigated the …

Methods We retrospectively evaluated 2,890 patients who underwent thyroidectomy due to
PTC between May 2004 and Aug 2008. We divided patients into 3 groups: young (≤ 35 …

Introduction Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) generally shows an excellent prognosis
except in cases with aggressive backgrounds or clinicopathological features. Although the …

Background We previously showed that preoperative and intraoperative evaluations of
papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are important for predicting a patient's prognosis, and we …

Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has a good prognosis among patients younger than 45 years
old, but the prognosis in elder is worse and treatment strategy is not well established. We …

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 Certain patient demographics and histopathologic features are risk factors for
papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) recurrence after initial treatment. Our objective was to …

PURPOSE: The natural history of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is characterized by a
slow growth rate and an excellent prognosis at 20 and 30 years. However, there is a small …