Intraoperative Pathologic Evaluation of Central Lymph Nodes in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer, Papillary

Treatments: Procedure: central node dissection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07066644

H-2309-109-1467

Details and patient eligibility

About

Efficacy of Intraoperative pathologic evaluation of central lymph nodes

Full description

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of intraoperative pathological examination and determine the risk factors for central lymph node metastasis in patients with unilateral clinically node-negative (cN0) papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Enrollment: 509 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with unilateral papillary thyroid cancer
• no evidence of lymph node metastasis (clinically N0)
• performed with Intraoperative pathologic evaluation

Exclusion criteria

• those with a history of neck surgery
• those with lateral lymph node metastasis
• those with suspected extrathyroidal extension
• those in whom Intraoperative pathologic evaluation was not performed