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Papillary thyroid cancer—how aggressive should surgery be?

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A prospective randomized controlled trial in patients with papillary thyroid cancer without lymph node metastases demonstrated similar oncologic outcomes in patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with prophylactic central compartment lymph node dissection (pCCND) and in those who underwent total thyroidectomy without pCCND. However, pCCND was associated with an increased rate of complications.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, K3-705, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, 53792, WI, USA

    Sarah E. Tevis & Herbert Chen

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Tevis, S., Chen, H. Papillary thyroid cancer—how aggressive should surgery be?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 11, 195–196 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2015.13

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