THE CONTROVERSY Despite nearly exhaustive debate over the last several decades, the
ideal extent of surgery for low-risk, small, intrathyroidal, well-differentiated papillary thyroid …

Background The surgical approach toward unilateral papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has
been in controversy. One of the concerns is the existence of contralateral occult carcinoma …

Introduction Total thyroidectomy (TT) remains the treatment of choice for differentiated
thyroid carcinomas (DTCs), but a limited approach can be proposed when tumors are at an …

Background The characteristics of multifocal PTC remain controversial. Surgical approach to
multifocal tumor changes between centers. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of …

Objective. To explore the clinical utility of tumor‐specific growth factor (TSGF) and the
soluble interleukin‐2 (IL‐2) receptor (sIL‐2R) as immune‐related factors for predicting lymph …

This article includes discussions of the surgical approach to benign and malignant disease
and the role of prophylactic thyroidectomy and nodal dissection for medullary thyroid cancer …

Background We examined the frequency of the BRAF V600E mutation and compared the
clinicopathologic features based on the BRAF V600E mutation status in multifocal papillary …

Purposes To quantitatively predict central lymph node metastasis (CLNM) risks by
comparing the clinicopathological features of different multifocal manifestations in papillary …

BACKGROUND Although the distribution of thyroid carcinoma in the Arab Gulf States has
been described, no previous study has examined the characteristic clinicopathologic …

目的探讨甲状腺乳头状癌(papillary thyroid carcinoma, PTC) 组织学变型的临床意义, 明确PTC
颈淋巴转移微生态系统(microecosystems) 中各重要组成部分在肿瘤转移过程中的作用 …