Central cervical lymph node metastases in papillary thyroid cancer: A systematic review of imaging-guided and prophylactic removal of the central compartment

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-136

  Mulla, Mubashir ^a,b   Schulte, Klaus Martin ^a,b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CENTRAL LYMPH NODE; CENTRAL LYMPHADENECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; META ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 83455200226     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04162.x     Document Type: Review

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