Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common thyroid malignancy. Lymph nodes involvement is common in differentiated thyroid cancer, and cervical lymph node micrometastases are observed in up to 85% of patients with papillary thyroid cancer during surgery. While the therapeutic central lymph node dissection has been accepted, the debate on the prophylactic in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) continues.
Keywords: papillary thyroid cancer prophylactic central neck lymph node dissection.
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