Results suggest that a significant proportion of patients will have nodal disease in the central compartment on IP
Clarity Needed on Which Patients with PTC Can Be Safely Observed
Can localized papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) forgo surgery and be observed? Background: Recent epidemiologic trends have documented a dramatic increase in the incidence of PTC, much of it due to the overdiagnosis of subclinical PTC. In 2006, the authors published a landmark study demonstrating this increase and raised the question of whether the definition or treatment […]