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Observational studyThyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association2023

Long-Term Outcomes of Active Surveillance and Immediate Surgery for Adult Patients with Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: 30-Year Experience.

Akira Miyauchi, Yasuhiro Ito, Makoto Fujishima, Akihiro Miya, Naoyoshi Onoda, Minoru Kihara, Takuya Higashiyama, Hiroo Masuoka, Shiori Kawano, Takahiro Sasaki and 9 more

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Observational study in Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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80citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Outcomes and effectiveness of active surveillance for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  11. Thyroid Cancer: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2026
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  16. The malignancy risk of thyroid incidentalomas detected by [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Akira MiyauchiDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0041-197X
Yasuhiro ItoDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Makoto FujishimaDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Akihiro MiyaDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Naoyoshi OnodaDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Minoru KiharaDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Takuya HigashiyamaDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Hiroo MasuokaDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9850-4159
Shiori KawanoDepartment of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Takahiro SasakiDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9513-5036
Mitsushige NishikawaDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Shuji FukataDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Takashi AkamizuDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Mitsuru ItoDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Eijun NishiharaDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1786-0077
Mako HisakadoDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Kazuyoshi KosakaDepartment of Internal Medicine, and Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Mitsuyoshi HirokawaDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology and Cytology, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Toshitetsu HayashiDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology and Cytology, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, PapillaryThyroid NeoplasmsAdultHumansLymphatic MetastasisRetrospective StudiesThyroidectomyWatchful Waitingactive surveillancedisease progressionimmediate surgerypapillary thyroid microcarcinomaprognosis

Identifiers

PMID37166389
PMCPMC10354707

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