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Folia Med (Plovdiv)
; 64(3): 430-436, 2022 Jun 30.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35856104
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common thyroid malignancy. Lymph nodes involvement is common in differentiated thyroid cancer, and cervical lymph node micrometastases are observed in up to 85% of patients with papillary thyroid cancer during surgery. While the therapeutic central lymph node dissection has been accepted, the debate on the prophylactic in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) continues.