Ultrasonography for the Prediction of High‐Volume Lymph Node Metastases in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Should Surgeons Believe Ultrasound Results?

Abstract

Lymph node involvement found by ultrasound has great predictive value for high-volume LNMs; the NPV is very high for patients without lymph node involvement on ultrasound. The ultrasound results do not appear to be influenced by the experience of the sonographer.