… found that the most specific features for nodal metastases were short axis greater than 5 mm
(96%; … Pattern of spread to the lateral neck in metastatic well-differentiated thyroid cancer: a …

… to determine the incidence and significance of metastatic thyroid cancer to the DN, in an …
The second issue involves nodal staging for thyroid cancer, where N1a refers to metastatic …

… cases without pathologic data for nodal levels as well as those … of thyroid surgery, as well as
the extent of nodal dissection … the predication of level V nodal metastasis was also assessed. …

… We therefore studied patients with papillary thyroid cancer and lymph node metastasis, …
to determine how the various characteristics of nodal metastasis may affect patient survival. …

… with PTC and lateral nodal metastasis (N1b) was evaluated in the present study, in order
to increase the knowledge base for those referring patients for thyroid surgery as well as for …

Background The aims of this study were to evaluate the rate and risk factors of ipsilateral and
contralateral central lymph node (CLN) metastases in patients with papillary thyroid cancer …

… We go onto describe the impact that nodal metastases have on outcome, before discussing
the role of therapeutic and prophylactic neck dissection. Whilst all authors support the use of …

… control of local neck nodal metastases of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in high-risk patients.
… for nonsurgical control of thyroid cancer metastases. In a series of 29 metastatic nodes, PEI …

… the presence of lymph node metastases is associated with … of differentiated thyroid cancer
that lymph node metastases are … locoregional recurrence as macroscopic nodal disease and is …

… thyroid cancer (PTC) in young patients may rarely be encountered with pulmonary metastases.
… of these nodal metastases with apparent successful clearance of residual disease. …