Open AccessIs a Prophylactic Central Compartment Neck Dissection Required in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Patients with Clinically Involved Lateral Compartment Lymph Nodes?
Author(s) -
Victoria Harries,
Marlena McGill,
Laura Y. Wang,
R. Michael Tuttle,
Richard J. Wong,
Ashok R. Shaha,
Jatin P. Shah,
Snehal G. Patel,
Ian Ganly
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.764
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1534-4681
pISSN - 1068-9265
DOI - 10.1245/s10434-020-08861-4
Subject(s) - medicine , neck dissection , lymph , thyroid carcinoma , dissection (medical) , surgery , papillary thyroid cancer , compartment (ship) , carcinoma , thyroid , surgical oncology , lymph node , thyroid cancer , thyroidectomy , radiology , pathology , oceanography , geology
The 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines state that a prophylactic central compartment neck dissection (PCND) should be considered for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and clinically involved lateral neck lymph nodes (cN1b). The purpose of our study was to determine the rate of central neck recurrence in select cN1b patients, with no evidence of clinically involved central compartment lymph nodes, treated without a PCND.