Endocrine Abstracts

Background: To date, no staging system has been related to the number of metastatic lymph node or lymph node ratio. Lymph node ratio (LNR) was defined as the number of metastatic LNs divided by the total number of LNs dissected. The purpose of this study was to determine how central LNR had a prognostic value to predict recurrence in N1b papillary cancer.Methods: This study included 331 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with lateral neck dissect...