ea0063p377 | Thyroid 1 | ECE2019
Back Kyorim
, Yoon So Jeong
, Kim Min Jhi
, Choe Jun-Ho
, Kim Jung-Han
, Kim Jee Soo
Background: The 2015 ATA guidelines recommend total thyroidectomy with therapeutic central lymph node dissection (CND) for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients with clinical central lymph node metastasis (CLNM). The purpose of this study is to verify that total thyroidectomy with therapeutic bilateral CND is necessary for all patients with unilateral cN1a PTC.Methods: This study retrospectively reviewed 899 PTC patients who had total thyroidectomy ...