Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) is defined as a papillary thyroid cancer measuring 10 mm or less in greatest dimension. Diagnosis of PTMC could be established during the surgery for benign thyroid lesions and after fine needle aspiration biopsy. Despite the small size, PTMC could be highly aggressive tumor showing metastases and elevated invasiveness. However, correlation between tumor size and risk of lymph-node metastases remains unclear.<p class="a...