Surgical Management of Appendicular Skeletal Metastases in Thyroid Carcinoma
Figure 4
Kaplan-Meier analysis for recurrence free survival, as determined by the probability of no recurrence or death. (a) Patients had a higher probability of recurrence free survival if the osseous metastasis was excised versus no excision (). All patients that had surgeries where the metastasis were not excised died () or were lost to followup (). (b) Patients had a higher probability of recurrence free survival if they presented with a single bone metastasis versus multiple bones (). Five of the 9 (56%) patients with single bone metastasis at presentation were alive at last followup, compared with 6 of 29 (21%) patients who presented with multiple bone metastasis.
