Surgical Management of Appendicular Skeletal Metastases in Thyroid Carcinoma
Figure 5
Kaplan-Meier analysis of the effect of radioactive iodine treatment on survival. (a) After thyroidectomy, patients treated with radioactive iodine had more favorable survival than those who were not candidates for radioactive iodine (). No patients who were not treated with radioactive iodine survived more than 3 years. (b) After surgery for osseous metastasis, there was no significant difference in survival between patients treated with radioactive iodine and those who were not ().
