The Prognostic Significance of Nodal Met
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Randolph, Gregory W.; Duh, Quan-Yang; Heller, Keith S.; LiVolsi, Virginia A.; Ma
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Article
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2012
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Mary Ann Liebert
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English
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## Background: Ultrasound and prophylactic dissections have facilitated identification of small-volume cervical lymph node (ln) metastases in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc). since most staging systems do not stratify risk based on size or number of ln metastases, even a single-micr