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ArticleWorld journal of clinical cases2022

Relationship between subgroups of central and lateral lymph node metastasis in clinically node-negative papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Jing Zhou, Da-Xue Li, Han Gao, Xin-Liang Su

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Article in World journal of clinical cases, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jing ZhouDepartment of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children, Chongqing 401120, China.
Da-Xue LiDepartment of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children, Chongqing 401120, China.
Han GaoDepartment of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children, Chongqing 401120, China.
Xin-Liang SuDepartment of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China. suxinliang@21cn.com.
Chongqing Maternal and Child Health Hospital · CNThe Affiliated Yongchuan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLymph node metastasis (LNM) of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has a certain regularity and occurs first to the central lymph node and then to the lateral lymph node. The pathway of PTC LNM can guide surgical prophylactic lymph node dissection (LND) for clinical surgeons.

aimTo investigate the relationship between subgroups of central LNM and lateral LNM in unilateral clinically node-negative PTC (cN0-PTC).

methodsData were collected for 1089 PTC patients who underwent surgical treatment at the Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery of the First Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from January 2016 to December 2017. A total of 388 unilateral cN0-PTC patients met the inclusion criteria and were enrolled in this study. The clinical and pathological data for these 388 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy + central LND + lateral LND were retrospectively analyzed. The relationship between the central LNM and lateral LNM subgroups was investigated.

resultsThe coincidence rate of cN0-PTC was only 30.0%.Optimal scaling regression analysis showed that sex (57.1%

conclusionThe LNM pathway of thyroid cancer has a certain regularity. For unilateral cN0-PTC patients with a tumor diameter > 2 cm and pretracheal or ipsilateral paratracheal LNM, LND at ipsilateral level III and level IV must be considered. When there is a tumor in the upper third of the thyroid with prelaryngeal LNM, LND at level II, level III and level IV must be considered.

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Clinically node-negativeLymph node metastasisPapillary thyroid carcinomaPrelaryngealProphylactic lymph node dissection

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