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Table 3 Clinical parameters in multiple PTC patients in the presence or absence of lymph node metastasis

From: BRAFV600E status and clinical characteristics in solitary and multiple papillary thyroid carcinoma: experience of 512 cases at a clinical center in China

Lymph node metastasis

Yes

No

P value

Number

74 (54.4%)

62 (45.6%)

 

Age (years)

41.5 ± 12.2 (9–60)

50.3 ± 14.2 (18–75)

0.028

Tumor diameter (mm)

2.08 ± 1.51

1.13 ± 1.36

0.016

Extrathyroidal invasion

26 (35.1%)

9 (14.5%)

0.005

Vascular invasion

13 (17.6%)

2 (3.2%)

0.007

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

23 (31.1%)

13 (21.0%)

0.128

Distant metastasis

6 (8.1%)

0 (0%)

0.024