Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Recent studies presented that younger patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) had poorer clinical outcomes compared to older PTMC patients. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of patient’s age on the lymph node metastasis (LNM) status of PTMC, a risk factor for recurrence and poor clinical outcome of PTMC.Methods: The study evaluated 2068 PTMC patients who underwent thyroid operation with lymph node (LN) diss...