Total Thyroidectomy Versus Lobectomy for Thyroid Cancer: Single-Center Data and Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Controversies remain about the ideal risk-based surgical approach for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).

Methods

At a single tertiary care institution, 370 consecutive patients with low- or intermediate-risk DTC were submitted to either lobectomy (LT) or total thyroidectomy (TT) and were followed up.

Results

Event-free survival by Kaplan-Meier curves was significantly higher after TT than after LT for the patients with either low-risk (P = 0.004) or intermediate-risk (P = 0.032) tumors. At the last follow-up visit, the prevalence of event-free patients was higher in the TT group than in the LT low-risk group (95% and 87.5%, respectively; P = 0.067) or intermediate-risk group (89% and 50%; P = 0.008). No differences in persistence prevalence were found amo

SUBMITTER: Colombo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8253713 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature