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ReviewAnnals of surgical oncology2025

The Landmark Series: Extent of Surgery for Low-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.

Timothy M Ullmann, Julie A Sosa

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Review in Annals of surgical oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Clinicopathological predictors of central lymph node metastasis in clinically node-negative papillary thyroid carcinoma: a retrospective cohort 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 · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Timothy M UllmannDepartment of Surgery, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6509-789X
Julie A SosaDepartment of Surgery, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA. julie.sosa@ucsf.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancers (DTCs) at low risk for disease progression or relapse after treatment remains controversial. These patients have excellent disease-specific survival. Therefore, minimizing the impact of treatments on patients' quality of life is particularly important. For these reasons, the pendulum has swung in recent years to favor less extensive surgery toward lobectomy instead of total thyroidectomy, away from prophylactic (central compartment) lymphadenectomy, and even in some cases, omitting surgery altogether. This review discusses several of the influential studies from the past two decades that have had an impact on the management for these patients, including a shift toward more personalized care.

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ThyroidectomyThyroid NeoplasmsHumansLymph Node ExcisionPrognosisQuality of Life

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PMID40009309
PMCPMC11976359

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