Surgeon volume and prognosis of patients with advanced papillary thyroid cancer and lateral nodal metastasis.

CONCLUSION: Surgeon volume is associated with structural recurrence, but not distant metastasis or cancer-specific death in patients with N1b PTC. Surgeon volume is important in initial surgery for advanced PTC with extensive nodal metastasis in order to ensure curative outcome and reduce treatment-related morbidity.
PMID: 29405275 [PubMed - in process]

Source: The British Journal of Surgery - February 1, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Kim HI, Kim TH, Choe JH, Kim JH, Kim JS, Kim YN, Kim H, Kim SW, Chung JH Tags: Br J Surg Source Type: research