Partial Thyroidectomy With Incidental Metastatic Lymph Nodes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The need for completion thyroidectomy in patients with incidental metastatic lymph nodes after partial thyroidectomy is unclear.

Objective

To investigate the outcomes of patients with incidental metastatic lymph nodes following partial thyroidectomy.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective review of a prospectively maintained thyroid cancer database from 1985 to 2015 was carried out at a head and neck surgery practice at a tertiary referral cancer center. A total of 74 patients who underwent thyroid lobectomy or thyroid isthmusectomy between 1985 and 2015 and were found to have incidental metastatic lymph nodes on final pathologic analysis and were selected to be observed without immediate completion thyroidectomy were included. A separate group o

SUBMITTER: Alameer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10654922 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature