Papillary Microcarcinoma of the Thyroid: Clinical Characteristics and BRAFV600E Mutational Status of 977 Cases

X Zheng, S Wei, Y Han, Y Li, Y Yu, X Yun… - Annals of surgical …, 2013 - Springer
Background Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is one of the most common endocrine
malignancies. It is estimated that papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) accounts for up to …

Papillary microcarcinoma in comparison with larger papillary thyroid carcinoma in BRAFV600E mutation, clinicopathological features, and immunohistochemical …

YJ Park, YA Kim, YJ Lee, SH Kim… - Head & Neck …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PMC;≤ 1 cm) is thought to take a benign
course during the lifetime. However, recent studies showed high recurrence rates for PMC …

[HTML][HTML] Outcome of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: Study of 1,990 cases

ZZ Lu, Y Zhang, SF Wei, DS Li… - Molecular and …, 2015 - spandidos-publications.com
The present study examines the requirement of prophylactic neck node dissection in
papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) patients by analyzing high‑risk factors of neck …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: a study of 1,587 patients

X Zheng, C Peng, M Gao, J Zhi, X Hou… - Cancer biology & …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective The purposes of this study were to identify risk factors for cervical lymph node
metastasis and to examine the association between BRAF V600E status and clinical …

Aggressiveness and outcome of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) versus microcarcinoma (PMC): a mono‐institutional experience

C Cappelli, M Castellano, M Braga… - Journal of surgical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Background Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) represents 70%–75% of well‐differentiated
thyroid cancers. Although most reports have shown that papillary thyroid microcarcinomas …

Nodal metastasis and recurrence in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

A Pisanu, A Saba, M Podda, I Reccia, A Uccheddu - Endocrine, 2015 - Springer
Despite the majority of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) patients has benign clinical
courses, some PTMCs have a clinical presentation similar to conventional papillary thyroid …

Papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid—prognostic significance of lymph node metastasis and multifocality

SM Chow, SCK Law, JKC Chan, SK Au, S Yau… - cancer, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND It is known that patients with papillary microcarcinoma (PMC) of the thyroid
gland have a very favorable prognosis. The rising incidence of PMC among papillary thyroid …

Analysis of Differential BRAFV600E Mutational Status in High Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma

X Lee, M Gao, Y Ji, Y Yu, Y Feng, Y Li, Y Zhang… - Annals of surgical …, 2009 - Springer
Papillary thyroid cancers often occur as microcarcinoma. Some papillary thyroid
microcarcinoma (PTMC) have been considered to be high aggressive according to …

Tall Cell Variant of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Clinicopathologic Features with BRAFV600E Mutational Analysis

J Bernstein, RK Virk, P Hui, A Prasad, WH Westra… - Thyroid, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Background: The tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma is an aggressive subtype that
generally presents as a large tumor in the advanced stage; however, little is known about …

Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: how to diagnose and manage this epidemic?

P Soares, R Celestino… - … Journal of Surgical …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The incidence of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTmC) has been increasing everywhere
due to the improvement of imaging and morphological diagnoses and probably also due to …