Preoperative Diagnosis of Cervical Metastatic Lymph Nodes in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Comparison of Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Combined Ultrasound with Computed Tomography

Abstract

The US/CT combination was found to be superior to US alone for the detection of metastatic lymph nodes in the lateral neck levels in PTC patients by level-by-level analysis.