Luca Sessa, Carmela De Crea, Nikolaos Voloudakis, Francesco Pennestri', Luca Revelli, Pierpaolo Gallucci, Germano Perotti, Luca Tagliaferri, Ernesto Rossi, Esther Diana Rossi, Alfredo Pontecorvi, Rocco Bellantone, Marco Raffaelli
BACKGROUND: Locally infiltrating (T4) differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC) represent a challenge. Surgical strategy and adjuvant therapy should be planned balancing morbidity and oncologic outcome. A series of patients with T4 DTC who underwent multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment is reported. The main study endpoints were the oncologic outcome, complication rates, and risk factors for tumor recurrence. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All DTC cases operated between 2009 and 2021 were reviewed and T4 DTC cases were identified...
May 3, 2024: Annals of Surgical Oncology