We evaluated the risk of bilateral or contralateral cervical lymph node metastases in 135 patients with papillary thyroid cancer who underwent bilateral neck dissection. We confirmed that bilateral jugular lymph node metastases were frequent in patients with obvious carcinoma in both lobes of the gl
Risk of lymph node metastases in multifocal papillary thyroid cancer associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis
✍ Scribed by Konturek, Aleksander; Barczyński, Marcin; Nowak, Wojciech; Wierzchowski, Wojciech
- Book ID
- 121557126
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Volume
- 399
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-2451
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