Development and validation of a population-based model for predicting the regional lymph node metastasis in adolescent differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Adolescent differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is a rare type of thyroid cancer that represents a special entity of all endocrine-related cancer. This study aims to establish the first nomogram for predicting the regional (central and lateral) lymph node metastasis (LNM) in the adolescent population for better surgical management.We retrospectively reviewed the clinicopathology characteristics of adolescent patients with DTC in the...