Background There are 3 compartments of regional lymph nodes to which thyroid carcinoma
metastasizes: central, lateral, and mediastinal compartments. The central compartment is the …

Cancer of the head and neck is uncommon, consisting of less than 5% of all human cancers
in the United States.'The term “head and neck cancer” traditionally refers to malignant …

Background: Thyroid surgery is the mainstay of treatment for thyroid cancer, but there are
options for the surgical approach. There is a general agreement that the goal of thyroid …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a slow-growing cancer with a generally good prognosis that
sometimes have an aggressive behaviour. Metastases to neck lymph nodes is the first step …

Abstract Objectives/Hypothesis The management of cervical metastases from differentiated
thyroid carcinoma (DTC) remains controversial. Most surgeons perform a neck dissection …

AIM: To evaluate the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for staging local disease
and lymph node metastases in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid by comparing MRI with …

BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) frequently metastasizes to the regional
neck; skip metastasis (metastasis to the lateral compartment in the absence of central …

Theodor Kocher, at the turn of the past century, made outstanding contributions to the
understanding of thyroid disease. By 1901, he had performed 2,000. thyroid operations, and …

Background Cervical lymph node metastases are very common in papillary thyroid cancer
(PTC), and typically spread in a predictable stepwise fashion in clinical practice. However …

Thyroid carcinomas are uncommon in childhood and adolescence. The aim of this study
was to analyze clinical features and clinical outcomes of thyroid cancer in the pediatric …