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Prophylactic central lymph node dissection in differentiated thyroid cancer - benefits and risk
Gancho G Kostov1, Rossen S Dimov1, Mladen I Doykov1
1Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Folia Medica
|July 20, 2022
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.

