Robotic Surgery Via Bilateral Axillo-breast Approach for Relatively Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma With Lateral Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis: a Safe and Effective Cosmetic Procedure in the Context of Prevalent Thyroid Ultrasound Screening
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Lead
Ruijin Hospital
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
(1) PTC with lateral LN metastasis confirmed by fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy;
(2) maximum tumor size \< 3 cm;
(3) without extrathyroidal extension;
(4) metastatic LNs in unilateral levels II, III, IV and/or V;
(5) number of suspicious metastatic LNs based on preoperative ultrasonography \< 5;
(6) maximum metastatic LN diameter \< 3 cm.
You may not be if
(1) metastatic LNs in level I or VII;
(2) metastatic LNs fused with each other or fixed in the neck or extra-nodal extension;
(3) history of neck surgery or radiation therapy;
(4) extranodal extension;
(5) the presence of TERT mutation.
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