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Central neck dissection ( n = 1,090)

Non-english publications excluded ( n = 140)

English ( n = 950)

Publications unrelated to humans excluded ( n = 45)

Humans ( n = 905)

Publications unrelated to papillary thyroid cancer and central neck dissection excluded ( n = 478)

Central neck dissection, papillary thyroid cancer ( n = 427) Central neck dissection, level 6 ( n = 81) Central neck dissection, prophylactic ( n = 189) Central neck dissection, elective ( n = 62) Central neck dissection, routine ( n = 104) Central neck dissection, recurrence ( n = 301) Central neck dissection, local recurrence ( n = 206) Central neck dissection, locoregional recurrence ( n = 10)

Publications unrelated to reducing locoregional recurrence excluded ( n = 402)

Full-text articles reviewed ( n = 25)

Publications did not meet inclusion criteria ( n = 10)

Full-text articles included ( n = 15)

FIGURE 2-13  Flow diagram of literature review conducted in early 2016 of prophylactic central neck dissection. The initial 1,090 documents identified in the search were reduced to 25, of which 15 were included.