Lymph Node Metastasis from 259 Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinomas: Frequency, Pattern of Occurrence and Recurrence, and Optimal Strategy for Neck Dissection

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-407

  Wada, Nobuyuki ^a   Duh, Quan Yang ^b   Sugino, Kiminori ^c   Iwasaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Kameyama, Kaori ^d   Mimura, Takashi ^c   Ito, Koichi ^c   Takami, Hiroshi ^e   Takanashi, Yoshinori ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ITO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0037366091     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200303000-00015     Document Type: Article

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