Research Article
Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma in a Country of Endemic Iodine Deficiency (1994–2013)
Table 2
Histological subtypes and distant spread of FTCs at the time of histological diagnosis in females and males.
| | Female (/%) | Male (/%) | value |
| Histological subtype of FTC | | | | Conventional | 38 (80.9) | 18 (60.0) | 0.066 | Hurthle cell | 5 (10.6) | 8 (26.7) | 0.116 | Insular | 1 (2.1) | 1 (3.3) | 1.000 | Minimally invasive | 1 (2.1) | 2 (6.7) | 0.557 | Encapsulated | 1 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1.000 | Uncertain malignant potential | 1 (2.1) | 1 (3.3) | 1.000 | Total | 47 (100.0) | 30 (100.0) | | Distant spread | 9 (19.1) | 7 (23.3) | 0.775 | Lymph node | 4 (44.4) | 2 (28.6) | 0.633 | Bony involvements | 1 (11.1) | 4 (57.2) | 0.106 | (i) Femur | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 1.000 | (ii) Clavicle | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 1.000 | (iii) Cervical vertebrae | 1 (11.1) | 1 (14.3) | 0.400 | (iv) Rib | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 0.000 | Forehead (swelling) | 1 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1.000 | Neck muscle | 2 (22.2) | 1 (14.3) | 1.000 | Dural mater | 1 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1.000 | Total | 9 (100.0) | 7 (100.0) | |
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