Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction and purpose: More than 90% of differentiated thyroid cancers are papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Lymph node metastasis is common in PTC and has been reported to have no effect on prognosis. The risk of cervical metastasis is high in the presence of clinicopathologic factors including extrathyroidal extension, multifocality and lymphovascular invasion. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the clinicopathological features of lymph node metastasis development....