High suspicion US pattern on the ATA guidelines, not cytologic diagnosis, may be a predicting marker of lymph node metastasis in patients with classical papillary thyroid carcinoma

To evaluate the utility of ultrasound (US) patterns based on the 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines and cytologic diagnosis of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology as predicting markers for lymph node metastasis (LNM) in classical papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).

Source: American Journal of Surgery - December 14, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Eun Cho, Eun-Kyung Kim, Hee Jung Moon, Jung Hyun Yoon, Vivian Y. Park, Jin Young Kwak Source Type: research