Surgical Management of Appendicular Skeletal Metastases in Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 3

Thyroid cancer diagnosis subtypes, bone metastases, and bone surgery sites.

Thyroid cancer subtype	Total number of patients	Patients with bone; metastases (percentage of total)	Patients who had surgery on bone metastases (percentage of pts with bone mets)	Surgery sites	Other treatments; (patients treated/total getting surgery)
Anaplastic	264	22 (8.3)	2 (9.1)	Femur (2)	XRT, chemo; (2/2)
Follicular	637	96 (15.1)	21 (21.9)	Hand metacarpal (1), radius (1), humerus (6), pelvis (5), femur (8)	XRT; (2/21)
Hurthle	342	44 (12.9)	10 (22.7)	Humerus (5), scapula (1), pelvis (2), femur (2)	XRT, chemo; (4/10)
Medullary	866	134 (15.5)	2 (1.5)	Humerus (1), femur (1)	Chemo; (1/2)
Papillary	6572	254 (3.9)	6 (2.4)	Radius (1), humerus (1), femur (4)	None
Total	8681	550 (6.3)	41 (7.5)