Clinical Study

Utility of Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound Assessment of the Lateral Neck for Metastatic Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Table 1

Demographics and study results.

Patients included in study109
Patient characteristics
 Gender75.5% female
 Age54.1 years (±16.4)
 BMI29.4 (±5.3)
Primary tumor characteristics
 Size1.85 cm (±1.2)
 Multifocality41%
Lymph node size (evaluated by FNA)1.37 cm (±0.53)
Average followup34.1 months (±23.9)
Postoperative RAI scans92% of patients