Clinical Study
Factors Influencing the Outcome of Patients with Incidental Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma
Table 3
Comparison between the main characteristics of patients without or with tumour recurrence.
| | Patients without recurrence () | Patients with recurrence () | |
| Age (years) | 48.32 ± 13.6 | 41.53 ± 10 | 0.10 | Male gender (%) | 15.7 | 37.5 | 0.14 | Total thyroidectomy (%) | 84 | 87.5 | 0.11 | Tumour size (cm) | 0.45 ± 0.25 | 0.37 ± 0.19 | 0.29 | Tumour multifocality (%) | 27.7 | 62.5 | 0.043 | T1 with capsular invasion (%) | 1.2 | 0 | 0.75 | Lymph nodal metastases N1 (%) | 4.8 | 0 | 0.52 | Distant metastasis (%) | 0 | 12.5 | 0.088 |
131I therapy (%) | 45.8 | 87.5 | 0.03 |
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