Predictive Factors of Lymph Node Involvement in Differentiated Thyroid Cancers

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine malignancy. The objective of our study was to determine the pre and intraoperative predictive factors of lymph node involvement in differentiated thyroid cancers. Material and methods: This is a prospective observational and single-center study over a period of 48 months involving a total of 101 patients diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma without evidence of pre- and intraoperative lymph node metastases (cN0). All patients underwent total thyroidectomy with bilateral prophylactic central dissection performed immediately