Effect of skip metastasis to lateral neck lymph nodes on outcome of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Jean Baptiste BertinCamille BuffetLaurence LeenhardtFabrice MenegauxNathalie ChereauPublished in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2022)
The recurrence rate of N1b-Skip patients was lower than that of N1b-CL patients and similar to that of N1a patients. This result could be used as an indication for the modality of radioiodine therapy, and for the pattern of follow-up procedures.