… proper treatment of lymph node metastases in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. We know
… that when prophylactic lymph node dissections were done, micrometastases were found in …

… Patients who undergo surgery for papillary thyroid cancer with only a limited lymph node
examination are thought to be at risk for potentially harboring occult disease. However, this risk …

… cannot be applied to follicular thyroid cancer (FTC), poorly-differentiated thyroid cancer (PDTC),
undifferentiated thyroid cancer (UTC), or medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). Depending …

… extensive lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid cancer (… oriented dissection of
regional lymph nodes in PTC. A … compartment-oriented central lymph node dissection (CLND) …

… The very large numbers in SEER and the various controls on this analysis also reveal some
underlying truths about thyroid cancer biology: the extent and location (N1b) of lymph node …

… 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, …

… evidence of local regional lymph node metastasis). However, … not only the lymph node VI
but also the lymph node VII (the … of lymph node stage and distant metastasis in thyroid cancer …

… treatment of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). The significance of lymph node metastases
remains controversial, and the aim of this study is to determine how the lymph node ratio (LNR) …

… from the follicular thyroid cells, papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common of all
thyroid malignancies [1]. While it boasts the greatest survival rates of all thyroid cancers, it is vital …

… the number of positive lymph nodes in papillary and medullary thyroid cancer. Skip … lymph
nodes: 3.7 vs 12.9 nodes (r = −0.43, P<.001) in papillary thyroid cancer and 6.0 vs 17.1 nodes …