Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is an indolent tumor with low malignancy potential. However, occult synchronous cervical lymph node metastases (CLNM), which may lead to a high risk of local recurrence, are still present in 20–40% of patients. The low diagnostic efficiency (< 47%) of the neck ultrasound in central lymph node metastases detection leads to the development of alternative ways of occult CLNM prediction in patients with PTC. The objective is to...