%0 Journal Article %T Metastatic lymph node characteristics predicting prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer patients %A Jeon, Min-Ji %A Shong, Young-Kee %J Annals of Thyroid %D 2018 %B 2018 %9 %! Metastatic lymph node characteristics predicting prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer patients %K %X Metastases to cervical lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) are common and associated with up to 80% of PTC patients (1). Cervical LN metastasis itself has been known as a risk factor for recurrent/persistent disease and PTC with lateral cervical LN metastasis has a worse prognosis than that with central neck LN metastasis (2,3). %U https://aot.amegroups.org/article/view/4363 %V 3 %P %@ 2522-6681