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Is total thyroidectomy the procedure of choice for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer?

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Patients with papillary thyroid cancer >1 cm should initially undergo total thyroidectomy when it can be performed safely, as it provides improved disease-free survival and overall survival when compared with thyroid lobectomy

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  1. DT Ruan is an Endocrine Surgery Fellow and OH Clark is a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.,

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Ruan, D., Clark, O. Is total thyroidectomy the procedure of choice for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 4, 128–129 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpendmet0720

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