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; (𝑛=83)	Patients with recurrence; (𝑛=8)	𝑃
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