Table 1 Demographic and pathological data of 285 papillary thyroid cancer patients

Patients

285

220

65

Male

60 (21.05%)

48 (21.81%)

12 (18.46%)

0.681

Female

225 (78.94%)

172 (78.18%)

53 (81.53%)

Mean age (years)

51.54 ± 16.39

53.07 ± 13.9

46.36 ± 14.73

0.0008

Histology

Papillary classic

178 (62.45%)

134 (60.9%)

44 (67.69%)

0.025

Follicular-variant

86 (30.17%)

71 (32.27%)

15 (23.07%)

Hürthle cell-variant

9 (3.15%)

9 (4.09%)

0

Tall cell-variant

12 (4.21%)

6 (2.72%)

6 (9.23%)

Tumor

Mean size (mm)

16.39 ± 11.19

16.13 ± 11.82

17.27 ± 8.77

0.47

Unique

205 (71.92%)

160 (72.72%)

45 (69.23%)

0.001

Multifocal

80 (28.07%)

60 (27.27%)

20 (30.76%)

Microcarcinoma

57 (20%)

47 (21.36%)

10 (15.38%)

0.2686

Locoregional infiltration

73 (25.61%)

46 (20.9%)

27 (41.53%)

0.001