Clinicopathological studies of minimal thyroid and oridinary thyroid cancers

摘要: Clinicopathological studies were carried out on 27 patients with minimal thyroid cancer and 56 ordinary at Kanazawa University, from April, 1979 to December, 1982. There was a significant difference in the rate of preoperative diagnosis between groups. Subtotal thyroidectomy modified neck dissection usually performed both The histological types group included 16 papillary carcinomas, 7 nonencapsulated sclerosing one follicular carcinoma, anaplastic carcinoma squamous cell metaplasia two multiple mixed carcinomas. no rates intrathyroidal lymph node metastases While metastatic lesions localized central cervical nodes, general variant metastasized not only nodes but also ipsilateral even contralateral jugular nodes.