The prevalence of thyroid malignancies has sharply elevated in the past few years, and a large number of newly diagnosed thyroid malignancies was papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC). The efficacy of prophylactic central lymph node dissection (PCLND) in patients with clinical lymph node-negative (cN0) PTMC is still debatable. In this study, we aimed to create a predictive model to assess the likelihood of central lymph node metastasis (CLNM) in cN0 PTMC.
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