An Approach to Macroscopic Central Lymph Nodes Detected during Surgery in Patients with Thyroid Micropapillary Carcinoma: Should We Resort to Dissection?

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the patients ().

	Number (percentage)
Gender
Female	79 (72.5%)
Male	30 (27.5%)
Multicentricity
No	88 (80.7%)
Yes	21 (19.3%)
Surgery
Total thyroidectomy + CLND	56 (51.4%)
Total thyroidectomy	53 (48.6%)
Lymphocytic thyroiditis
Absent	64 (58.7%)
Present	45 (41.3%)