Research Article
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%) |
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