Prognosis of Multifocal Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 2

Multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma in postoperative progression and progression-free groups.

	Postoperative progression (𝑛=98)	Postoperative progression-free (𝑛=385)	𝑃 value
Age (yr)	47.1±18.0	45.2±12.4	0.2128
Female (%)	61 (62.2)	323 (83.9)	0.0001
Tumor size (cm)	2.8±0.2	2.0±0.1	0.0001
TNM stage I at diagnosis (%)	42 (42.9)	263 (68.3)	0.0001
Postoperative Tg* (ng/dL)	530±132	38.8±10.5	0.0001
Follow-up period (yr)	7.2±0.5	5.9±0.3	0.0277
Thyroid cancer mortality (%)	18 (18.4)	0	0.0001
Total mortality (%)	21 (21.4)	13 (3.4)	0.0001

Tg*: serum thyroglobulin levels 4 to 6 weeks after thyroidectomy.