TABLE 2.

Patients who underwent reoperation after 2010

Patient ID	Procedures	Timeline from total thyroidectomy (months)	Pathology	Postoperative TSH (uIU/ml)/ TG (ng/mL)	TSH (uIU/ml)/TG (ng/mL) at time of last reoperation	Time to recurrence (months)
55	Excision of right neck lymph node	N/A	Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)	Not reported	0.4/0.9	130.3
	Total thyroidectomy with central neck dissection	0	PTC 1.6 cm	59.3/65.4
	Central neck dissection, right modified radical neck dissection	10	4 of 34 lymph nodes positive for metastatic PTC	0.009/<0.5
	Right suprahyoid neck dissection	124	Nine lymph nodes negative for metastatic PTC	31.6/0.1
92	Left hemithyroidectomy	N/A	PTC 0.05 cm	Not reported	0.1/18.6	77.1
	Left modified radical neck dissection and completion thyroidectomy	0	Metastatic PTC, 2 of 7 positive lymph nodes	Not reported
	Resection left lateral neck lymph node	90	Metastatic PTC	Not reported
	Resection left lateral neck lymph node	113	Metastatic PTC	Not reported
	Left modified radical neck dissection and right neck dissection	167	Metastatic PTC, 10 of 11 positive left lymph nodes	0.2/86.1
	Bilateral modified radical neck dissection	172	Metastatic PTC, 1 of 8 positive lymph nodes	0.03/11.8
	Left central node dissection, excision left midjugular node and excision lymph nodes right lateral neck	192	Metastatic PTC, 2 of 10 positive lymph nodes	0.1/23.4
	Left neck dissection	212	Metastatic PTC	0.04/10
	Radical resection left neck tumor, left carotid dissection, left pectoralis major muscle myofascial flap	289	Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma arising in metastatic PTC	Not reported