Papillary thyroid cancer and its surgical

✍ Scribed by Masakuni Noguchi; Mitsuharu Earashi; Hirohisa Kitagawa; Nagayoshi Ohta; Michael Thomas; Itsuo Miyazaki; Yuji Mizukami; Takatoshi Michigishi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 689 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-4790
• DOI: 10.1002/jso.2930490303

✦ Synopsis

The surgical management in papillary thyroid cancer has been highly controversial. In the Department of Surgery (II), Kanazawa University Hospital, the surgical management especially for cervical lymph node metastases has changed since 1973 from a conservative approach to an aggressive one. In order to determine whether an aggressive approach is warranted, a retrospective multivariate analysis was carried out on 106 cases of papillary thyroid cancer. The patients have been followed for 10-28 years. Multivariate analysis was conducted following Cox's model. By this analysis, aggressive management appeared to have no impact on survival or relapse-free survival. However, age, sex, tumor size, and cervical lymphadenopathy were confirmed to be important prognostic factors in survival and/or relapse-free survival.