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Table 3 Clinicopathological variable of contralateral lobe

From: Total thyroidectomy may be more reasonable as initial surgery in unilateral multifocal papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: a single-center experience

Characteristics

Contralateral lobe

 
 

HT (n = 57)

TT (n = 40)

p value

PTMC

 Yes

14

2

 

 Tumor size (mm) mean ± SD

0.75 ± 0.23

0.21 ± 0.02

0.085

 Microscopic ETE (+)

2

0

0.510

 Multifocal (+)

3

0

0.265

 With chronic thyroiditis (+)

1

0

1.000

 No

42

38

0.037 a

Benign nodule

 Yes

7

10

 

 No

50

30

0.105

  1. SD standard deviation, PTMC papillary thyroid microcarcinoma, ETE extrathyroidal extension
  2. aComparison on the PTMC rate in the contralateral lobe between HT and TT