Tumor size and presence of calcifications on ultrasonography are pre-operative predictors of lymph node metastases in patients with papillary thyroid cancer.

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Published in J Surg Oncol on July 08, 2011

Authors

Nephtali R Gomez1, Guennadi Kouniavsky, Hua-Ling Tsai, Helina Somervell, Sara I Pai, Ralph P Tufano, Christopher Umbricht, Jeanne Kowalski, Alan P B Dackiw, Martha A Zeiger

Author Affiliations

1: Endocrine Surgery Section, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. nrgomez01@gmail.com

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