Extent of Surgery for Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Preoperative Imaging and Role of Prophylactic and Therapeutic Neck Dissection

• Published in: Current treatment options in oncology Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Cisco, Robin M., Shen, Wen T., Gosnell, Jessica E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Current Science Inc 01.03.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biopsy, Fine-Needle; Carcinoma; Carcinoma, Papillary; Endocrine Tumors (O Clark and A Dackiw; Female; Humans; Lymph Nodes - diagnostic imaging; Lymph Nodes - pathology; Lymph Nodes - surgery; Lymphatic Metastasis; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neck Dissection - methods; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - diagnostic imaging; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - pathology; Oncology; Prognosis; Secondary Prevention - methods; Section Editors; Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; Thyroid Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Thyroid Neoplasms - pathology; Thyroidectomy - methods; Ultrasonography; Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC); Prophylactic lymph node dissection; Lymph node metastases; Lymph node; Surgery; Prophylactic neck dissection; Prophylactic bilateral central lymph node dissection (CLND); Preoperative imaging; Ultrasound; Fine needle aspiration (FNA); Therapeutic neck dissection

Opinion statement Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has an excellent prognosis, yet lymph node metastases are common. Most authors agree that central and/or lateral lymph node dissection should be undertaken in patients with abnormal lymph nodes detected on ultrasound, physical examination or intraoper...