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

Table 4

Relationship between clinicopathological features at initial surgery and distant recurrence.

Distant recurrence	Yes (𝑛=13)	No (𝑛=16)	𝑃 values
Gender
Male	1 (20%)	4 (80%)
female	12 (50%)	12 (50%)	0.2198
Age (yrs)
≥55	13 (54%)	11 (46%)
<55	0 (0%)	5 (100%)	0.0267
Tumor size (cm)	3.0±1.2	2.8±1.2	0.6805	(3 unknown)
Extrathyroid extension
Yes	5 (56%)	4 (44%)
No	6 (35%)	11 (65%)	0.3198	(3 unknown)
Clinical node metastasis (𝑁)
Yes	8 (73%)	3 (27%)
No	3 (21%)	11 (79%)	0.0199	(3 unknown)
Repeated SIM recurrence
Yes	2 (40%)	3 (60%)
No	11 (46%)	13 (54%)	0.8114