The Effectiveness of Prophylactic Modified Neck Dissection for Reducing the Development of Lymph Node Recurrence of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

AIM: The most frequent recurrence site of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the cervical lymph nodes. The introduction of an electric linear probe for use with ultrasonography in 1996 improved preoperative lateral neck evaluations. Before 2006, however, our hospital routinely performed prophylact...

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Published in:World J Surg
Main Authors: Ito, Yasuhiro, Miyauchi, Akira, Kudo, Takumi, Kihara, Minoru, Fukushima, Mitsuhiro, Miya, Akihiro
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544793/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429089
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-017-4023-6
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