Analysis of Clinical Outcome of Patients with Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 1
The clinical characteristics of PDTC and WDTC patients.
Poorly differentiated carcinoma
Well-differentiated papillary carcinoma
value
Gender (M/F)
7/22
44/183
n.s.
Age (median; range)
57 (20–83)
54 (11–77)
n.s.
Tumor size (cm)
3.171.8
1.9771.3
Ex*1
0
13
129
n.s.,
1
7
65
2
9
33
Lymph node involvement*2
0
8
73
n.s.
1a
15
82
1b
6
68
Pathological subtypes
Solid
8
—
—
Insular
5
Trabecular
7
Solid & trabecular
9
Recurrent sites
Lymph node
7
13
—
Lung
2
6
Bone
0
1
Others
2
2
Median followup Period (months)
75.9
89.3
n.s.
*1 EX1: infiltrating to adjacent muscle and/or fat tissue, EX2: infiltrating to adjacent organs such as trachea, esophagus, and so forth.
*2 1a: central cervical lymph node involvement, 1b: lateral cervical lymphnode involvement.
