Preoperative Sonographic and Clinicopathological Predictors for Solitary Lateral Neck Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study

摘要

Cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) is an independent risk factor for poor prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), but the scope of PTC lateral neck dissection (LND) is controversial. Solitary lateral lymph node metastasis (SLNM) is a special type of PTC with lateral LNM. Currently, study on the preoperative clinical characteristics of SLNM has been seldomly reported. This study evaluated the preoperative characteristics for predicting the SLNM of PTC.