Clinical Study

Clinical Significance and Prognostic Impact of Subcutaneous or Intrastrap Muscular Recurrence of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 2

Intraoperative and pathological findings at initial surgery for 29 PTC patients showing SIM recurrence.

Extrathyroid extension
 Yes9 (35%)
 No17 (65%)(3 unknown)
Extranodal tumor extension
 Yes3 (12%)
 No23 (88%)(3 unknown)
Pathological node metastasis
 Yes24 (92%)
 No2 (8%)(3 unknown)
Pathological multiplicity
 Yes10 (38%)
 No16 (62%)(3 unknown)
p Stage
 IVA20 (77%)
 III0
 II2 (8%)
 I 4 (15%)(3 unknown)