Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Indications and Extent of Central Neck Dissection—Our Experience

Table 3

Risk factors of recurrence: gender and histology.

	Recurrence	𝑃
Gender
Male	1/42 (2.38%)	0.58
Female	4/173 (2.31%)
Mean age	53 ± 15.11 (versus 51.16 ± 14.36 non recurrent)	0.77
Histology
Papillary classic	1/135 (0.74%)	𝑃<0.001
Follicular variant	1/53 (1.88%)
Hürthle cell variant	1/5 (20%)
Tall cell variant	2/4 (50%)
Tumor
Mean size	24.6 ± 4.66 (versus 15.11 ± 10.54 non recurrent)	0.046
Unique	1/153 (0.65%)	0.039
Multifocal	4/62 (6.45%)
Locoregional infiltration
Present	4/52 (7.69%)	0.015
Absent	1/163 (0.61%)