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Prophylactic Central Neck Lymph Node Dissection Adds No Short-Term Benefit to Total Thyroidectomy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
|---|---|
| Author | Dimov, Rosen Kostov, Gancho Doykov, Mladen Dimov, Luboslav Nonchev, Boyan Dimova, Rositsa Hristov, Bozhidar |
| Editor | Pitak-Arnnop, Poramate |
| Copyright Year | 2023 |
| Abstract | Background and Objectives: To answer the research question: “Is prophylactic central neck lymph node dissection (pCNLD) beneficial among differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients?” Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study enrolling DTC patients treated at the University Hospital Kaspela, Bulgaria, from 30 January 2019 to October 2021. The predictor variable was presence of pCNLD (total thyroidectomy with vs. without pCNLD). The main outcome variables were postoperative complications (i.e., vocal cord paralysis, hypoparathyroidism, postoperative bleeding, and adjacent organ injury) and recurrence parameters. Appropriate statistics were computed with the significant level at p ≤ 0.05. Results: During the study period, 300 DTC patients (59.7% with pCNLD; 79.3% females) with an average age of 52 ± 2.8 years were treated. The mean follow-up period of the entire cohort was 45.8 ± 19.1 months. On bivariate analyses, TT with pCNLD, when compared to TT alone, required longer surgical time (mean difference: 9.4 min), caused nearly similar complications (except transient hypothyroidism: p = 0.04; relative risk, 1.32; 95% confidence interval, 1.0 to 1.73), and no significantly different recurrence events, time to recurrence, and recurrent sites. The benefit–risk analyses using the number needed to treat and to harm (NNT; NNH) also confirmed that TT plus pCNLD was not very beneficial in DTC management. Conclusion: The results of this study refute the benefit of pCNLD in DTC patient care with TT. Further well-designed studies in a larger cohort with a longer follow-up period are required to confirm this conclusion. |
| ISSN | 1010660X |
| Journal | Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) |
| Volume Number | 59 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC9960752 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| PubMed reference number | 36837441 |
| e-ISSN | 16489144 |
| DOI | 10.3390/medicina59020239 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2023-01-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2023 by the authors. |
| Subject Keyword | differentiated thyroid cancer prophylactic central neck lymph node dissection |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine |
