Approximately 37,200 people are expected to be diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the
United States this year. 1 Prognosis largely depends on the degree of tumor differentiation …

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 …

For regional control of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), the goal of lymphadenectomy is
the complete surgical resection of all grossly evident metastatic disease and the selective …

Differentiated thyroid cancer is characterized by an excellent long-term prognosis, which
unlike other head and neck carcinomas, is not influenced definitively by regional lymph …

Introduction: Papillary and follicular thyroid carcinomas are the most common thyroid
malignancies and are usually indolent. Lymph-node involvement increases the rate of tumor …

Background: Cervical lymph node metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are
common. Thirty to eighty percent of patients with papillary thyroid cancer harbor lymph node …

During the last decade, several analyses of prognostic factors for differentiated thyroid
cancer (DTC) have been reported. Although these studies have established a framework for …

When the subject of the extent surgery for well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) was last
reviewed in Surgical Clinics of North America, Dackiw and Zeiger noted that it continued to …

Background Cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) has been proven to be a predictor for
locoregional recurrence in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). Clinicopathological …

Cervical lymph node metastases are present in 20% to 50% of patients with differentiated
thyroid cancer (DTC) and 11% to 93% of patients with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). 1–7 …