Influencing factors of lateral lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common pathology type of thyroid carcinoma with the following biological characteristics:low malignancy,slow progress,longer duration,good prognosis,but it is prone to lymph node metastasis.Lateral lymph node metastasis relates with patients' age,sex,tumor size,tumor location,capsular invasion/extra-thyroidal extension,muli-focality and the number of positive central lymph nodes.Understanding the influencing factors of the lateral lymph node metastasis has important clinical significance for determining the lymph node dissection scope and the indications for the patients with thyroid carcinoma.