Utility of computed tomography in the detection of subclinical nodal disease in papillary thyroid carcinoma

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 973-978

  Soler, Zachary M ^a   Hamilton, Bronwyn E ^a   Schuff, Kathryn G ^a   Samuels, Mary H ^a   Cohen, James I ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK DISSECTION; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52249095785     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.134.9.973     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Cooper DS, Doherty GM, Haugen BR, et al; American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce. Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid. 2006;16(2):109-142.
2. Som PM, Curtin HD, Mancuso AA. An imaging-based classification for the cervical nodes designed as an adjunct to recent clinically based nodal classifications. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1999;125(4):388-396.
3. Som PM. Detection of metastasis in cervical lymph nodes: CT and MR criteria and differential diagnosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1992;158(5):961-969.
4. Jeong HS, Baek CH, Son Yl. et al. Integrated 18F-FDG PET/CTforthe initial evaluation of cervical node levels of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: comparison with ultrasound and contrast-enhanced CT. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2006; 65(3):402-407.
5. Nahas Z, Goldenberg D. Fakhry C. et al. The role of positron emission tomography/ computed tomography in the management of recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma. Laryngoscope. 2005;115(2):237-243.
6. Ito Y, Tomoda C, Uruno T, et al. Preoperative ultrasonographic examination for lymph node metastasis: usefulness when designing lymph node dissection for papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid. World J Surg. 2004;28(5):498-501.
7. Kouvaraki MA, Shapiro SE, Fornage BD. et al. Role of preoperative ultrasonography in the surgical management of patients with thyroid cancer. Surgery. 2003; 134(6):946-955.
8. Som PM, Brandwein M, Lidov M, Lawson W, Biller HF. The varied presentations of papillary thyroid carcinoma cervical nodal disease: CT and MR findings. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1994;15(6):1123-1128.
9. Wada N, Duh QY, Sugino K, et al. Lymph node metastasis from 259 papillary thyroid microcarcinomas: frequency, pattern of occurrence and recurrence, and optimal strategy for neck dissection. Ann Surg. 2003;237(3):399-407.
10. Caron NR, Tan YY, Ogilvie JB, et al. Selective modified radical neck dissection for papillary thyroid cancer: is level I, II and V dissection always necessary? World J Surg. 2006;30(5):833-840.
11. Wang TS, Dubner S, Sznyter LA, Heller KS. Incidence of metastatic well-differentiated thyroid cancer in cervical lymph nodes. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2004;130(1):110-113.
12. Sato N, Oyamatsu M, Koyama Y, Emura I, Tamiya Y, Hatakeyama K. Do the level of nodal disease according to the TNM classification and the number of involved cervical lymph nodes reflect prognosis in patients with differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid gland? J Surg Oncol. 1998;69(3):151-155.
13. Sivanandan R, Soo KC. Pattern of cervical lymph node metastases from papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Br J Surg. 2001;88(9):1241-1244.
14. Gimm O, Rath FW, Dralle H. Pattern of lymph node metastases in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Br J Surg. 1998;85(2):252-254.
15. Mirallié E, Visset J, Sagan C, Hamy A, Le Bodic MF, Paineau J. Localization of cervical node metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma. World J Surg. 1999; 23(9):970-974.
16. Stern WB, Silver CE, Zeifer BA, Persky MS, Heller KS. Computed tomography of the clinically negative neck. Head Neck. 1990;12(2):109-113.