Performance of the American Thyroid Association Risk Classification in a Single Center Cohort of Pediatric Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Retrospective Study

Table 4

Predictive effects of some clinicopathological characteristics on disease course during follow-up and at last visit.

Baseline Characteristics (n)	Disease Course During Follow-Up			Disease Status at Last Visit
	Persistent/ Recurrence (n=15)	Disease Free (n=26)	P Value	Persistent Disease (n=8)	Disease Free (n=33)	P Value
Lymph node metastasis			.091193			NS
Present (23)	11	12		6	17
Absent (18)	4	14		2	16
Distant Metastasis			0.0005			0.0414
Present (6)	6	0		3	3
Absent (35)	9	26		5	30