Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of occult lymph node metastases (LNM) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) reaches 80%, still their surgical management in clinically node negative (cN0) patients remains controversial and ranges from ‘wait and see’ principle to prophylactic dissections of both central and lateral neck compartments. This encouraged some authors to apply the concept of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNb) in PTC. Our aim to investigate if SLNb using methylene ...