A healthy 43-year-old woman was referred to the surgeon with an incidental nodule on the right side of her thyroid, which had been found when she underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for mild ...

If you want to learn about surgeries to treat thyroid cancer, this is a place to start. We’ll explain surgeries such as a thyroid lobectomy and a total thyroidectomy. Surgery is the most common ...

Patients with intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer and lymph node metastasis show no significant increase in tumor recurrence when undergoing lobectomy compared with a total thyroidectomy, new ...

At 5 years, mortality did not differ between lobectomy and total thyroidectomy (relative risk [RR], 0.30; 95% CI, 0.07-1.35), and mortality outcomes remained similar between both approaches even after ...

FDG PET/CT imaging for prognosis of metastatic non-iodine avid differentiated thyroid cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Total or completion thyroidectomy during or after a lobectomy may be necessary for half of adults with low-risk ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with small papillary thyroid cancer who underwent lobectomy or have tumor sizes of at least 1.8 cm, two ...

To determine whether the extent of surgery affects outcome and to identify a tumor size threshold associated with improved outcomes. This was a retrospective study of patients identified from the ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

The thyroid is a small gland shaped like a butterfly. It’s located in the lower front part of the neck, just below the voice box. The thyroid produces hormones that the blood carries to every tissue ...