Papillary thyroid carcinoma: modified radical neck dissection improves prognosis

S Noguchi, N Murakami, H Yamashita, M Toda… - Archives of …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To ascertain whether modified radical neck dissection offers a survival advantage
for some subsets of patients with papillary cancer of the thyroid. Design A retrospective …

The pros and cons of prophylactic central compartment lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma

EL Mazzaferri, GM Doherty, DL Steward - Thyroid, 2009 - liebertpub.com
A well-established feature of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is it propensity to
metastasize to cervical lymph nodes in the central and lateral compartments. Currently, there …