Significance of prophylactic modified radical neck dissection for patients with low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma measuring 1.1-3.0 cm: First report of a trial at Kuma Hospital

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1486-1491

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Tsushima, Yukiko ^a   Masuoka, Hiroo ^a   Yabuta, Tomonori ^a   Fukushima, Mitsuhiro ^a   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Tomoda, Chisato ^a   Kihara, Minoru ^a   Higashiyama, Takuya ^a   Takamura, Yuuki ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node dissection; Papillary carcinoma; Prognosis; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855161640     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-010-4494-7     Document Type: Article

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