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- Title
Central neck lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid cancer: comparison of complication and recurrence rates in 295 initial dissections and reoperations.
- Authors
Shen, Wen T; Ogawa, Lauren; Ruan, Daniel; Suh, Insoo; Kebebew, Electron; Duh, Quan-Yang; Clark, Orlo H
- Abstract
The American Thyroid Association recently changed its management guidelines for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) to include routine central neck lymph node dissection (CLND) during thyroidectomy. We currently perform CLND during thyroidectomy only if enlarged central nodes are detected by palpation or ultrasonography; we perform CLND in the reoperative setting for recurrence in previously normal-appearing or incompletely resected nodes. Critics of this approach argue that reoperative CLND has higher complication and recurrence rates than initial CLND. We sought to test this argument, using it as our hypothesis.
- Publication
Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2010, Vol 145, Issue 3, p272
- ISSN
1538-3644
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archsurg.2010.9