Disease-free survival and response to therapy of clinically node- negative Papillary Thyroid Cancer treated without central neck dissection: Retrospective study of 321 patients.

Background And Objective: Nodal metastases in the central compartment are frequent in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). However, they are mostly micrometastases with no impact on survival and their relevance on the risk of locoregional relapse is controversial. There is no consensus regarding optimal management of the central neck in patients with PTC cN0.