An Approach to Macroscopic Central Lymph Nodes Detected during Surgery in Patients with Thyroid Micropapillary Carcinoma: Should We Resort to Dissection?

Table 2

Comparison of age, gender, and multicentricity; presence of lymphocytic thyroiditis; tumor size; and number of nodules in the two patient groups.

	Patient group
	Total thyroidectomy ()	Total thyroidectomy + CLND ()
Age (median, range)	41.5 y (25–69 y)	44.0 y (19–79 y)
Gender
Female (n, %)	39 (49.4%)	40 (50.6%)
Male (n, %)	14 (46.7%)	16 (53.3%)
Multicentricity
No (n, %)	45 (51.1%)	43 (48.9%)
Yes (n, %)	8 (38.1%)	13 (61.9%)
Lymphocytic thyroiditis
Absent (n, %)	34 (53.1%)	30 (46.9%)
Present (n, %)	19 (42.2%)	26 (57.8%)
Tumor size (median, range)	8.0 (2–10) mm	8.0 (2–10) mm
Number of nodules (median, range)	1.0 (1–5)	1.0 (1‐2)

p values obtained from independent sample t-test; p values obtained from Yate’s corrected chi-square test; p values obtained from the Mann–Whitney U test.