Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Indications and Extent of Central Neck Dissection—Our Experience

Table 1

Demographic and pathological data of 215 differentiated thyroid cancer patients.

	Total	Group A	Group B	𝑃
Patients	215	169	46
Male	42 (19.53%)	34 (20.11%)	8 (17.39%)	0.8384
Female	173 (80.46%)	135 (79.88%)	38 (82.60%)
Mean age (years)	51.2 ± 14.34	52.3 ± 14	47.15 ± 15.01	0.0303
Histology
Papillary classic	135 (62.79%)	102 (60.35%)	33 (71.73%)	0.36
Follicular variant	53 (24.65%)	42 (24.85%)	11 (23.91%)
Hürthle cell variant	5 (2.32%)	5 (2.95%)	0
Tall cell variant	4 (1.86%)	4 (2.36%)	0
Follicular	18 (8.37%)	16 (9.46%)	2 (4.34%)
Tumor
Mean size (mm)	15.33	15.1	16.17	0.5215
Unique	153 (71.16%)	125 (73.96%)	28 (60.86%)	0.12
Multifocal	62 (28.83%)	44 (26.03%)	18 (39.13%)
Microcarcinoma	48 (22.32%)	41 (24.26%)	7 (15.21%)	0.2686
Locoregional infiltration	52 (24.18%)	32 (18.93%)	20 (43.47%)	0.0011