Preoperatively Predicting the Central Lymph Node Metastasis for Papillary Thyroid Cancer Patients With Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

Preoperatively Predicting the Central Lymph Node Metastasis for Papillary Thyroid Cancer Patients With Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

BackgroundThe preoperative distinguishment of lymph nodes with reactive hyperplasia or tumor metastasis plays a pivotal role in guiding the surgical extension for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), especially in terms of the central lymph node (CLN) dissection. We a...

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Main Authors: Yu Min, Yizhou Huang, Minjie Wei, Xiaoyuan Wei, Hang Chen, Xing Wang, Jialin Chen, Ke Xiang, Yang Feng, Guobing Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
Subjects:
thyroid carcinoma
central lymph node metastasis
ultrasound characteristics
nomogram
risk factor
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.713475/full

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