Significance of distance between tumor and thyroid capsule as an indicator for central lymph node metastasis in clinically node negative papillary thyroid carcinoma patients

• Chan Yong Seong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-3691

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• Young Jun Chai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Young Jun Chai, Ka Hee Yi

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kevinjoon@naver.com (YJC); imykh@naver.com (KHY)

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-3433

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• Sang Mok Lee,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

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• Su-jin Kim,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital and College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• June Young Choi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

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• Kyu Eun Lee,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital and College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Ki-Tae Hwang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

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• Sun-Won Park,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5063-2685

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• Ka Hee Yi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Young Jun Chai, Ka Hee Yi

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: kevinjoon@naver.com (YJC); imykh@naver.com (KHY)

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

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