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Table 3 Risk factors of recurrence: gender, age and histology

From: Total thyroidectomy without prophylactic central neck dissection in clinically node-negative papillary thyroid cancer: is it an adequate treatment?

 

Recurrence

P

Gender

  

Male

2/60 (3.33%)

0.81

Female

4/225 (1.77%)

Mean age

49.83 ± 15.58 (versus 51.58 ± 14.35 non-recurrent)

0.768

Histology

 

P = 0.001

Papillary classic

2/178 (1.12%)

Follicular-variant

1/86 (1.16%)

HĂĽrthle cell-variant

1/9 (11.11%)

Tall cell-variant

2/12 (16.66%)

Tumor

  

Mean size

22.5 ± 6.62 (versus 16.26 ± 11.24 non-recurrent)

0.177

Unique

1/205 (0.48%)

0.009

Multifocal

5/80 (6.25%)

Locoregional infiltration

 

0.005

Present

5/73 (6.84%)

Absent

1/212 (0.47%)