Sang-Hyeon Ju, Yong Bae Ji, Minchul Song, Joung Youl Lim, Da Beom Heo, Min-Gyu Kim, Jae Won Chang, Ho-Ryun Won, Yea Eun Kang, Eu Jeong Ku, Mijin Kim, Eun Kyung Lee, June Young Choi, Hyeong Won Yu, Young Joo Park, Jun-Ho Choe, Bon Seok Koo
OBJECTIVE: Active surveillance (AS) is generally accepted as an alternative to immediate surgery for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) measuring ≤1.0 cm (cT1a) without risk factors. This study investigated the clinicopathologic characteristics of PTCs measuring ≤2.0 cm without cervical lymph node metastasis (cT1N0) by tumor size group to assess the feasibility of AS for PTCs between 1.0 cm and 1.5 cm (cT1b≤1.5). DESIGN: This study enrolled clinically T1N0 patients with preoperative ultrasonography information (N=935) from a cohort of 1259 patients who underwent lobectomy and were finally diagnosed with PTC from June 2020 to March 2022...
March 1, 2024: European Thyroid Journal