Research Article
Risk Factors for Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: A Single-Center Retrospective Study
| Parameters | Patient number (%) |
| Gender | | Male | 189 (24.1%) | Female | 596 (75.9%) | Age (year) | | Tumor size (mm) | | Multifocality | | Solitary lesion | 559 (71.2%) | Multifocal lesions | 226 (28.8%) | Unilateral | 86 (11.0%) | Bilateral | 140 (17.8%) | Surgery procedure | | Lobectomy plus ipsilateral CLND | 576 (73.4%) | Total thyroidectomy plus bilateral CLND | 174 (22.2%) | Total thyroidectomy plus bilateral CLND and unilateral LLND | 35 (4.5%) | Open surgery | 624 (79.5%) | Laparoscopic surgery | 161 (20.5%) | LNM | | LNM | 236 (30.1%) | CLNM only | 207 (26.4%) | LLNM only | 7 (0.9%) | CLNM and LLNM | 22 (2.8%) |
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CLND: central lymph node dissection; LLND: lateral lymph node dissection; LNM: lymph node metastasis; CLNM: central lymph node metastasis; LLNM: lateral lymph node metastasis.
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