Implications of extrathyroidal extension invading only the strap muscles in papillary thyroid carcinomas.

CONCLUSIONS: T3b, distinguished from minimal ETE, may be related to larger tumor size, higher prevalence of multifocality, LNM, DM, recurrence and worse RFS than no ETE, but it may not affect OS and may not independently predict recurrence in PTC patients. PMID: 31830859 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Thyroid Source Type: research