SUGITANI ET AL 1 HAVE PRESENTED AN EXPERIENCE of 604 patients who underwent
definitive surgery for papillary thyroid carcinoma. The authors have excluded …

Background: Our understanding of the natural history of differentiated thyroid carcinoma has
improved with the definition of prognostic factors. These prognostic factors have helped us …

Background: Papillary thyroid carcinomas are associated with metastases and decreased
survival in a small group of patients. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the factors …

Background We previously showed that preoperative and intraoperative evaluations of
papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are important for predicting a patient's prognosis, and we …

Background The prognosis of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is usually
favorable; however, a subset of patients can develop local recurrence or distant metastases …

Objective To analyze differences in the demographic backgrounds, and in treatments,
prognosis, and risk factors of patients with papillary thyroid cancer operated on from 1965 to …

BACKGROUND: Several factors have been proven to be useful for classifying patients with
papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) into either low-or high-risk groups. However, the relative …

Background Our original system for risk group classification for predicting cause-specific
death from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) defined patients with distant metastasis and …

Simple Summary Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing, with overdiagnosis being the
major driver of the thyroid cancer “epidemic”. Papillary thyroid carcinoma, usually with …

1) Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan 2) Department of Internal
Medicine, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. It is well-known that papillary …