Predictors of Regional Lymph Node Recurrence after Initial Thyroidectomy in Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Table 3

Demographic and clinicopathological characteristics.

Characteristics	Count (%)
Cancer type
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)	289 (86.3%)
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC)	26 (7.8%)
Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) or Hürthle cell carcinoma (HCC)	16 (4.8%)
Anaplastic (undifferentiated) thyroid carcinoma (ATC or UTC)	4 (1.2%)
Stage
I	192 (57.1%)
II	15 (4.5%)
III	29 (8.6%)
IVa	81 (24.1%)
IVb	11 (3.3%)
IVc	8 (2.4%)
Capsule status
Uncapsulated	70 (55.1%)
Capsulated	31 (24.4%)
Partially capsulated	26 (20.5%)