Marco Biffoni, Giorgio Grani, Rossella Melcarne, Valerio Geronzi, Fabrizio Consorti, Giuseppe De Ruggieri, Alessia Galvano, Maryam Hosseinpour Razlighi, Eva Iannuzzi, Tal Deborah Engel, Daniela Pace, Cira Rosaria Tiziana Di Gioia, Marco Boniardi, Cosimo Durante, Laura Giacomelli
Background : Effective pre-surgical planning is crucial for achieving successful outcomes in endocrine surgery: it is essential to provide patients with a personalized plan to minimize operative and postoperative risks. Methods: Preoperative lymph node (LN) mapping is a structured high-resolution ultrasonography examination performed in the presence of two endocrinologists and the operating surgeon before intervention to produce a reliable "anatomical guide". Our aim was to propose a preoperative complete model that is non-invasive, avoids overdiagnosis of thyroid microcarcinomas, and reduces medical expenses...
February 28, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine