… continue to rely on surgeon judgment during preoperative and intraoperative evaluation of
the central compartment to inform our decision making regarding whether to perform CLND. …

… in a patient with a small thyroid nodule, metastatic thyroid carcinoma should be considered.
… thyroid cancer and for screening family members for C-cell hyperplasia or medullary thyroid …

… Common aims of thyroid cancer guidelines … thyroid cancer. Guidelines are intended to guide
care rather than serve as the written standard of medical care or to replace clinical judgment…

… the judgment of the surgeon. Also, until recently, few in Western countries have supported
lateral jugular lymph node dissection (compartments variably including II-V). Therefore, C-VI “…

… Several aspects of thyroid cancer surgery are controversial and expert judgment is required.
… This article focuses on the surgical management of thyroid cancer in adult and pediatric …

… of judgments is that it provides a systematic procedure to update subjective judgments or …
This review identified gender, age, family history of thyroid cancer, previous radiotherapy in …

… the implicit judgment of an experienced thyroid surgeon, that is, … thyroid disease (recurrent
thyroid disease, thyroid cancer, … However, only highly experienced surgeons were included …

… by the Surgical Affairs Committee of the American Thyroid … the planning of initial and
revision surgery for thyroid cancer. … node dissection in keeping with sound clinical judgment. …

… Quite often endocrine surgeons face a metastatic thyroid cancer [1–5]; in these cases, the
presence of metastases does not contraindicate surgical excision of the primary tumor [62]. …

… surgery and management of thyroid cancer in the next 5 years should be focused on advances
in minimal access surgery… studies before drawing conclusive judgments on the use of the …