Patterns of regional recurrence in papillary thyroid cancer patients with lateral neck metastases undergoing neck dissection

Patterns of regional recurrence in papillary thyroid cancer patients with lateral neck metastases undergoing neck dissection

Abstract Background Practice variability exists for the extent of neck dissection undertaken for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) metastatic to the lateral neck nodes, with disagreement over routine level V dissection. Methods We performed a retrospective medical record review of PTC patients with...

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Main Authors: Jason J. Xu, Eugene Yu, Caitlin McMullen, Jesse Pasternak, Jim Brierley, Richard Tsang, Han Zhang, Antoine Eskander, Lorne Rotstein, Anna M. Sawka, Ralph Gilbert, Jonathan Irish, Patrick Gullane, Dale Brown, John R. de Almeida, David P. Goldstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Subjects:
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Neck dissection
Regional recurrence
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40463-017-0221-3

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