Research Article
Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma in a Country of Endemic Iodine Deficiency (1994–2013)
Table 1
Demographic characteristics and the clinical presentation of FCTs in females and males.
| | Female (/%) | Male (/%) | value |
| Age group (years) | | | | ≤19 | 3 (6.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0.277 | 20–29 | 8 (17.0) | 5 (16.7) | 1.000 | 30–39 | 5 (10.6) | 2 (6.7) | 0.699 | 40–49 | 7 (14.9) | 8 (26.7) | 0.245 | 50–59 | 11 (23.4) | 11 (36.7) | 0.301 | ≥60 | 13 (27.7) | 4 (13.3) | 0.168 | Clinical presentation | | | | Anterior neck swelling | 42 (89.4) | 26 (86.7) | 0.730 | Pathological fracture | 0 (0.0) | 2 (6.7) | 0.149 | Bone pain | 2 (4.3) | 1 (3.3) | 1.000 | Soft tissue swelling | 3 (6.3) | 1 (3.3) | 1.000 | Duration of symptoms at presentation (years) | | | | 1 | 8 (25.8) | 5 (22.7) | 1.000 | 2 | 2 (6.5) | 4 (18.2) | 0.201 | 3 | 4 (12.9) | 6 (27.3) | 0.175 | ≥4 | 17 (52.7) | 7 (31.8) | 0.315 | Surgical specimens | | | | Total thyroidectomy | 22 (46.8) | 14 (46.7) | 1.000 | Near total thyroidectomy | 5 (10.6) | 4 (13.3) | 0.730 | Lobectomy | 12 (25.6) | 4 (13.3) | 0.256 | Biopsy | 8 (17.0) | 7 (23.3) | 0.562 | Neck dissection | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.3) | 0.390 |
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