Abstract Introduction: Most patients diagnosed with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (microPTC) classified as low risk and therefore eligible for active surveillance (AS) are women. Although age is a predictor of tumor progression (more frequent among young people), adults “appropriate” candidates AS. Consequently, proportion low-risk microPTC AS women childbearing knowledge the effect pregnanc...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the significance of metastatic lymph node ratio (the ratio between the metastatic lymph node and the harvested lymph nodes; MLNR) in the central neck for the prediction of locoregional recurrence in patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. METHODS After reviewing medical records of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma patients who received total thyr...

OBJECTIVE To provide epidemiological information about thyroid cancer (TC) in the Metropolitan area of Florianopolis and investigate some factors that could be associated with this type of cancer. METHOD This study analyzed data of patients who had TC diagnosed and underwent surgical treatment in 2000 and 2005. Epidemiological factors about patients, tumors and surgical procedures were evalua...