Thyroid-Specific Genes Expression Uncovered Age-Related Differences in Pediatric Thyroid Carcinomas

Table 2

Summary of the clinicopathological features of pediatric and adult thyroid carcinoma.

	Pediatric	Adult	value
Mean age ± SD	11.84 (4–18 ys)	45.29 (20–76)
Gender
Female	29 (76%)	96 (83%)	0.3387
Male	9 (24%)	19 (17%)
Extrathyroidal extension	16 (42%)	39 (34%)	0.5596
Multifocal disease	17 (45%)	56 (49%)	0.7082
LN metastases	28 (74%)	48 (42%)	0.0007
Distant metastases	10 (26%)	4 (3%)	0.0002