… Intense postoperative monitoring has resulted in increasing detection of patients with
recurrent papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Our goals included quantifying successful reoperation, …

… Our reoperative experience with PTC at Mayo Clinic (52) included 410 patients who were
operated from 1999-2008. This encompassed a widely heterogeneous group of patients, …

… for thyroid cancer, we posed the following question: Do patients who require reoperation for
… In my own experience, I think my recurrences often happen, when they do, they happen in …

… Two patients (2%) suffered from a preoperative monolateral … for papillary (37/115, 32%) and
follicular carcinoma histotype (2/… As far as concerns the papillary and follicular carcinoma, we …

… This study highlights areas where we can improve the preoperative experience for patients
with thyroid cancer, and likely other malignant diseases. We anticipate that increasing …

… a CCC had less recurrent disease and therefore less need for reoperation. This may also be
… a modified dataset of papillary thyroid cancer patients from the National Cancer Database (…

… Clinical experience indicates that the biologic behavior of lymph node metastasis (LNM) …
Routine preoperative neck US for patients whose thyroid nodules are interpreted as either …

… outcome of surgical resection of metastatic papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in cervical lymph
… High-resolution US was performed by experienced thyroid cancer clinicians in most cases (…

… surgical management of reoperative PTC patients. Cervical US is more sensitive and precise
than any other modality in our experience. That 167 (75%) of the reoperative patients had …

… Recent epidemiological data reveals a growing incidence of DTC, particularly in screen-detected
papillary thyroid cancers [3]. Surgical intervention remains the primary treatment …