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Lymph node involvement in macroscopic medullary thyroid carcinoma

P Tamagnini, Maurizio Iacobone, F. Sébag, M. Marcy, C. De Micco, J F Henry

British journal of surgery · 2005 · 31 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

There were no preoperative factors that predicted node status for MTC larger than 1 cm in this series. Total thyroidectomy and nodal dissection remains the optimal treatment.

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