Evaluating the necessity of prophylactic lateral neck dissection in medullary thyroid carcinoma based on preoperative calcitonin levels: a multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Int J Surg · 2026 · PMC12825659 · PMID 41056029

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Biochemical recurrence-free survival showed a trend favoring the LND group for calcitonin levels below 500 pg/mL.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

However, this did not reach statistical significance (Fig. 3 ).

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