Tag Archives: Papillary thyroid cancer

General Surgery, Print Release

PUBLISHED: Open Total Thyroidectomy and Central Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Setting of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

Open Total Thyroidectomy and Central Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Setting of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Allison S. Letica-Kriegel, MD, MSc; Antonia E. Stephen, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common type of thyroid malignancy. While prognosis is overall favorable, many patients present with clinically positive lymph nodes, most commonly in the central neck compartment. Total thyroidectomy with central lymph node dissection is the treatment of choice in these patients.

Announcement, Content, General Surgery, Preprint Release

PREPRINT RELEASE: Bilateral Modified Radical Neck Dissection

Bilateral Modified Radical Neck Dissection
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven

Tobias Carling, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine

In 2014, a now 61-year-old male had a total thyroidectomy and central neck dissection for bilateral papillary thyroid cancer with extrathyroidal extension. Now, after presenting with recurrent metastatic papillary thyroid cancer, Dr. Tobias Carling performs a bilateral modified radical neck dissection.