Research Article
Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastases in Thyroid Cancer: Characteristics, Predictive Factors, and Prognosis
Table 1
The baseline characteristics of the patients included.
| | Total patients () | Initial surgery () | Reoperation () | value |
| | Gender (n) | | | | | | Male | 34 | 24 | 10 | 0.520 | | Female | 39 | 24 | 15 | | | Age (y) median (range) | 43 (14–90) | 42.5 (14–66) | 44 (21–90) | 0.709 | | Hospitalization time (d) mean ± SD | 10.6 ± 5.1 | 10.5 ± 5.4 | 10.8 ± 4.8 | 0.849 | | Approaches of MLND | | | | | | Transcervical | 70 | 46 | 24 | 0.973 | | Transsternal | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | Follow-up time (m) mean (range) | 42.8 (12–101) | 39.4 (12–101) | 46.9 (12–86) | 0.246 | | Histopathology (n) | | | | | | PTC | 60 | 47 | 13 | 0.658 | | MTC | 12 | 0 | 12 | | | ATC | 1 | 1 | 0 | | | Prognosis n (%) | | | | 1.000 | | Disease-free | 53 (72.6) | 35 (72.9) | 18 (72.0) | | | Recurrence | 15 (20.5) | 11 (22.9) | 4 (16.0) | | | Distant metastasis | 4 (5.5) | 3 (6.3) | 1 (4.0) | | | Death | 5 (6.8) | 3 (6.3) | 2 (8.0) | | | Disease-specific death | 3 (4.1) | 2 (4.2) | 1 (4.0) | |
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PTC: papillary thyroid carcinoma; MTC: medullary thyroid carcinoma; ATC: anaplastic thyroid carcinoma; SD: standard deviation; MLNM: mediastinal lymph node metastases.
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