2016 Chinese expert consensus and guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

Ming Gao1, Minghua Ge2, Qinghai Ji3, Ruochuan Cheng4, Hankui Lu5, Haixia Guan6, Li Gao7, Zhuming Guo8, Tao Huang9, Xiaoming Huang10, Xiaoming Li11, Yansong Lin12, Qinjiang Liu13, Xin Ni14, Yi Pan15, Jianwu Qin16, Zhongyan Shan6, Hui Sun17, Xudong Wang1, Zhengang Xu18, Yang Yu1, Daiwei Zhao19, Naisong Zhang20, Sheng Zhang21, Ying Zheng22, Jingqiang Zhu23, Dapeng Li1, Xiangqian Zheng1, Chinese Association of Thyroid Oncology, (CATO), Chinese Anti-Cancer Association 1Department of Head and Neck Tumor, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital; National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin; Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China; 2Department of Head and Neck, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou 310022, China; 3Department of Head and Neck Tumor, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200433, China; 4Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, China; 5Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200025, China; 6Department of Endocrinology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China; 7Department of Head and Neck, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310020, China; 8Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China; 9Department of Thyroid and Breast, Union Hospital Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China; 10Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China; 11Department of Head and Neck, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050082, China; 12Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China; 13Department of Head and Neck, Gansu Provincial Cancer Hospital, Lanzhou 730050, China; 14Department of Head and Neck, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China; 15Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin; Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjing 300060, China; 16Department of Thyroid, Head and Neck, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou 450008, China; 17Department of Thyroid, Sino Japanese Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130033, China; 18Department of Head and Neck, Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100021, China; 19Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Kaili 556099, China; 20Department of Head and Neck, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing 100142, China; 21Departments of Ultrasonography. Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin; Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China; 22Department of Head and Neck, Jilin Tumor Hospital, Changchun 130012, China; 23Department of Thyroid and Breast, West China School of Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610047, China