Research Article
Analysis of the Clinical Value of Delphian Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 2
The extent of surgery in DLN-positive and DLN-negative groups.
| | Extent of surgeries | DLN-positive (n = 106) | DLN-negative (n = 416) | Total |
| | Lobectomy plus isthmectomy | | | 114 | | Ipsilateral CLND | 15 | 99 | | | Total thyroidectomy | | | 408 | | Unilateral CLND | 34 | 202 | | | Unilateral CLNDand LLND | 13 | 8 | | | Bilateral CLND | 24 | 102 | | | Bilateral CLND and unilateral LLND | 17 | 4 | | | Bilateral CLND and LLND | 3 | 1 | |
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DLN, Delphian lymph node; LLND, lateral lymph node dissection; CLND, central lymph node dissection.
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