… than patients staged pN1. Optimized surgical staging for cN0 papillary carcinoma with
bilateral CND and ipsilateral LND (levels III and IV) in a one-stage procedure provides a basis for …

… A predictive staging system for thyroid carcinoma not only provides important prognostic …
thyroid carcinoma. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of differentiated …

… staged according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging manual for
anaplastic thyroid cancer: stage … thyroid carcinoma, including anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (12)…

… In many autoptic studies, papillary tumors of the thyroid are quite common without any clinical
… if we perform a lymph node dissection in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma or not. …

… to 90%, yet they remain stage I by the TNM classification and … % of patients who die of thyroid
carcinoma do so because of … in the thyroid bed (as high as 50%) die of their carcinoma. Yet …

… 40-50% of patients who die of thyroid carcinoma do so because of recurrent disease in the
… of 588 patient, only 5% had died of disease of whom 26 of 28 initially had stage IV disease. …

… consistent staging system for papillary thyroid carcinoma in … generalizability of these different
staging systems for PTC, the … specialized in managing thyroid carcinoma within the same …

… than the EORTC classification, the pTNM staging system, and the MACIS scoring system, …
risk of dying from thyroid carcinoma. Within this high-risk group, other staging systems such as …

Background: Several staging systems exist to estimate the prognosis for patients with
thyroid carcinoma. Our goal was to develop a new staging system to predict cancer-specific …

… the vast majority of newly diagnosed thyroid carcinomas include clinically occult … stage. In
the present paper we describe how the risk-benefit ratio of DTC management can be optimized …