… the proper treatment of lymph node metastases in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. We
… lymph node dissections were done, micrometastases were found in lymph nodes in about 80…

… The phenomenon of ‘skip metastases’ or discontinuous lymph node metastases refers to …
central lymph nodes but positive lateral or mediastinal lymph nodes. Skip metastases have …

… Overall survival at 14 years was 82 per cent for node negative and 79 per cent for node …
well-differentiated thyroid cancer is adversely affected by lymph node metastases. The optimum …

… risk of lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid … with lymph node metastasis
in papillary thyroid carcinoma … risk factors of lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer …

… Thus, lymph node involvement … Even though occult thyroid cancer is present in many regional
lymph nodes [9,10], … Grossly involved lymph nodes should definitely be removed, however, …

… thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) is controversial because PTMC is often found incidentally and
its prognosis is very good. Lymph node metastasis (… the risk of metastasis or recurrence, in …

… lymph-node metastases.81, 82 Lateral lymph-node metastases contralateral to the thyroid
… both thyroid lobes and the lateral lymph-nodes on either side. In patients with contralateral …

… thyroidectomy plus neck dissection in relation to recurrence. Our data demonstrate lymph
node metastases … We advocate thyroidectomy plus central lymph node dissection as the basic …

… Cervical lymph node (LN) metastases are common in patients with papillary thyroid …
Dissemination of PTC occurs in a stepwise fashion, first to nodes in the tracheoesophageal …

… the assessment of cervical lymph nodes metastasis (LNM) of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) …
the diagnostic values of US and CT in detecting the cervical LNM in thyroid cancer patients. …