Research Article
Thyroidectomy as Treatment of Choice for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Table 2
Association between clinical and histopathological features and patient and tumor characteristics.
| | Extrathyroid tumor growth | Nodal metastases |
| | Tumor size | | ≤1 cm | ≥1 cm | | ≤1 cm | ≥1 cm | | | 33/154 (21.4%) | 70/205 (34.10%) | 48/154 (31.2%) | 80/205 (39.0%) | | Age of patients at diagnosis | | ≤45 y | ≥45 y | | ≤45 y | ≥45 y | | | 47/183 (25.7%) | 56/176 (31.8%) | 87/183 (47.5%) | 41/176 (23.3%) | | Gender | | Female | Male | | Female | Male | | | 85/295 (28.8%) | 18/64 (28.10%) | 102/295 (36.4%) | 26/64 (40.60%) | | Histotype | | PTC | FTC | | PTC | FTC | | | 91/306 (29.7%) | 12/53 (22.60%) | 119/306 (38.9%) | 9/53 (17%) |
| | Distant metastases | Bilaterality | | Tumor size | | ≤1 cm | ≥1 cm | | ≤1 cm | ≥1 cm | | | 8/154 (5.2%) | 18/205 (8.8%) | 43/154 (27.9%) | 42/205 (20.5%) | | Age of patients at diagnosis | | ≤45 y | ≥45 y | | ≤45 y | ≥45 y | | | 13/183 (7.1%) | 13/176 (7.4%) | 46/183 (25.1%) | 53/176 (30.1%) | | Gender | | Female | Male | | Female | Male | | | 19/295 (6.4%) | 7/64 (10.90%) | 65/295 (22%) | 20/64 (31.3%) | | Histotype | | PTC | FTC | | PTC | FTC | | | 17/306 (5.6%) | 9/53 (17%) | 80/306 (26.1%) | 5/53 (9.4%) |
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