ArticleCancers2020
Completion Total Thyroidectomy Is Not Necessary for Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma with Occult Central Lymph Node Metastasis: A Long-Term Serial Follow-Up.
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- Effectiveness of prophylactic central compartment neck dissection following hemithyroidectomy in papillary thyroid cancer: a meta-analysis.ANZ journal of surgeryPooled it
- Analysis of Risk Factors for High-Risk Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma.Cancers · 2025Article
- Nomogram for predicting the risk of cervical lymph node metastases and recurrence in papillary thyroid carcinoma based on the thyroid differentiation score system and clinical characteristics.BMC endocrine disorders · 2025Article
- A nomogram based on ultrasound radiomics for predicting the invasiveness of cN0 single papillary thyroid microcarcinoma.Gland surgery · 2023Article
- Occult Central Lymph Node Metastasis in cN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Patients Undergoing TOETVA Procedure.Journal of thyroid research · 2023Article
- Thyroid lobectomy is sufficient for differentiated thyroid cancer with upgraded risk after surgery.Gland surgery · 2022Article
- Can Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis Increase the Risk of Distant Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma?Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The necessity of completion total thyroidectomy in patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) and pathological central lymph node metastasis (pCLNM) who underwent thyroid lobectomy with central compartment neck dissection (CCND) is unclear. We determined the necessity of completion total thyroidectomy by retrospectively comparing the prognosis according to the presence of pCLNM during a long-term follow-up. We enrolled 876 patients with PTMC who underwent thyroid lobectomy with prophylactic CCND from January 1986 to December 2009. Patients were divided according to central lymph node (CLN) metastasis: 165 (18.8%) and 711 (81.2%) in the CLN-positive and CLN-negative groups, respectively. Medical records were reviewed retrospectively, and clinicopathologic characteristics and recurrence rates were analyzed. The CLN-positive group was associated with male sex (
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