The Benefits and Risks of Prophylactic Central Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Prospective Cohort Study
Table 1
Demographic and perioperative data.
TT ()
TT plus CND ()
value
Age
51.6 ± 3.4
52.3 ± 2.3
0.227
Sex ratio (M : F)
1 : 5.5
1 : 4.1
0.359
Follow-up duration (months)
49.2 ± 15.9
55.2 ± 11.3
0.214
Tumor size (cm3)
1.6 ± 1.4
1.7 ± 1.2
0.878
Operation time (min)
93.2 ± 22.4
95.6 ± 17.9
0.093
T stage
0.817
pT1
59 (56.7%)
83 (52.2%)
pT2
18 (17.4%)
29 (18.9%)
pT3
27 (25.9%)
41 (26.9%)
N stage
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pN0
NA
118 (77.2%)
pN1a
NA
35 (22.8%)
Multiplicity
34 (32.7%)
58 (37.9%)
0.497
Parathyroid inadvertently excised
6 (5.8%)
11 (7.2%)
0.437
Parathyroid autotransplantation
8 (7.7%)
22 (14.4%)
0.033
Postoperative RAI
74 (71.2%)
112 (73.2%)
0.405
Perithyroidal lymph node was incidentally harvested in 13 patients (12.5%), all of which were negative for malignancy; detected in pathological review, not during the surgery; devascularized parathyroid during the surgery.
