Thyroid cancer therapy is based on surgery followed by radioiodine treatment. The
incorporation of radioiodine by cancer cells is mediated by sodium iodide symporter …

The management of thyroid cancer presents a continuing controversy in the surgical
literature. 7, 8, 21 The major issues include diagnostic work-up, extent of surgery, and …

Few subjects in surgery have generated as much controversy as the management of thyroid
nodule. The controversial issues include classification and histology, diagnostic evaluation …

Background The majority of differentiated thyroid cancer tends to present with limited
locoregional disease, leading to excellent long-term survival after operative treatment. Even …

PURPOSE: Controversy exists over the ability of morphology to predict the biologic behavior
of Hürthle cell carcinoma. The aim of this study was to conduct a critical histopathologic …

Objectives To study the clinical and pathological variables predicting lymph node
metastases in patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma and to examine the impact …

Methods. All patients had undergone total thyroidecto-my. Case histories were analysed
with respect to age at diagnosis, sex, histology, local lymph node involvement, size of lung …

The extent of surgical resection for differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid gland confined to
one lobe remains controversial. Although primary tumor size and extrathyroid extension are …

Background Age 45 years is used as a cutoff in the staging of well-differentiated thyroid
cancer (WDTC) as it represents the median age of most datasets. The aim of this study was …

Objective: Many patients undergoing thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)
have subclinical nodal disease at the time of surgery. Prophylactic bilateral central neck …