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Integrating BRAFV600E mutation, ultrasonic and clinicopathologic characteristics for predicting the risk of cervical central lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
BMC cancer - 27 Apr 2022
Zhang Zheng, Zhang Xin, Yin Yifei, Zhao Shuangshuang, Wang Keke, Shang Mengyuan, Chen Baoding, Wu Xincai
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BACKGROUND: The advantages of prophylactic central lymph node dissection (CLND) for clinically node-negative patients remained a great deal of controversies. Our research was aimed to analyze the relationship between cervical central lymph node metastasis (CLNM) and BRAFV600E mutation, ultrasonic and clinicopathologic characterizes in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). METHODS AND MATERIALS: In current study, a...
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