INTRODUCTION: We retrospectively reviewed the data of @entity1 with @entity3557 who were node positive and treated at our department between 1955 and 1994. Of 362 cases of @entity5 , 134 were identified with lymph-node @entity3 (37%). METHODS: Two types of dissection procedures were applied by a large community of surgeons. When only the cervical central lymph nodes were involved, the procedure of choice was thyroidectomy, with local lymph-node excision (LD); if the lateral nodes were also affected, modified radical neck dissection (MRND) was applied. RESULTS: Of 88 @entity1 considered to have minimal involvement, 70 underwent procedures of a lesser magnitude than MRND. Most of the operations were localised "picking procedures". Recurrence of the disease developed in 16 cases, twice in 8 of these. The new tumourous lymph node was found to be ipsilateral in every case and close to the place of the first operation. The rate of recurrence was 23%. In the same group, 18 MRNDs were performed, with ipsilateral lymph-node recurrence in six cases. In 41 @entity1 undergoing surgery for extended lymph-node @entity3 , conservative excisions were carried out in 17 and MRND in 24 cases, including six bilateral dissections. In this group, late recurrence was 47%. CONCLUSION: The results of the follow-up of 30 childhood and juvenile @entity1 with @entity3557 is very interesting; all of our young @entity1 are alive.

Long-term follow-up of node-positive XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity3 :: ('MESH:D009362', 'Disease') :: ['metastases'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['papillary cancer'] @entity3557 :: ('MESH:C536915', 'Disease') :: ['papillary thyroid carcinoma', 'papillary thyroid cancer']
@entity3557 :: (MESH:C536915,Disease) :: ['papillary thyroid carcinomas']
