… The only increased adverse outcome of performing a central neck dissection in addition to
total thyroidectomy is temporary hypocalcemia. This should be explained to the patient and all …

… thyroidectomy with central neck dissection (CPT 60252, thyroidectomy with limited neck
dissection), is inconsistently coded in patients who have lateral neck dissection codes (Table 3, …

… when neck dissection was combined with total thyroidectomy … Therapeutic neck dissection
or repeated neck dissection can … when neck dissection is combined with total thyroidectomy. …

… neck dissection (pCND) at the time of total thyroidectomy for PTC (3). Although there is general
agreement that formal lymph node dissection … cN0 undergoing a total thyroidectomy (TT) …

… in detail the type of neck dissection, the laterality, and the excised nodal basins. Therapeutic
CND is generally performed in the same setting as the total thyroidectomy (TT). Unilateral …

Background The use of prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) for papillary thyroid
cancer (PTC) without clinical evidence of nodal metastasis (cN0) remains controversial. This …

… All patients underwent a total thyroidectomy. Patients who clinically had … neck dissection,
either a selective neck dissection, level VI, superior mediastinum, or a selective neck dissection, …

… a total thyroidectomy and therapeutic neck dissection. Of them, 26 patients with palpable lateral
nodes underwent a total thyroidectomy and neck dissection … affected lateral neck. Sixteen …

… In contrast to the previous three meta-analyses,21, 22, 23 we strictly excluded studies in
which lobectomy, hemi-thyroidectomy or lateral neck dissection were performed with pCND. …

… Although central neck dissection is indicated in clinically … underwent total thyroidectomy
without a central neck dissection, in … submitted to total thyroidectomy with central neck dissection. …