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Table 1 Comparison of clinicopathological features between patients with and without Graves’ disease

From: Prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer in patients with Graves’ disease: a propensity score-matched analysis

Characteristics

PTC with GD (n = 114)

PTC without GD (n = 3514)

p value

Age (years)

46.3 ± 12.9

45.8 ± 12.2

0.641

Female sex

99 (86.8%)

2916 (83.0%)

0.279

Body mass index (kg/m2)

23.8 ± 3.1

23.5 ± 3.2

0.396

Preoperative FNA results

  

0.197

 Benign

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

 

 Atypia

7 (6.1%)

62 (1.8%)

 

 Follicular neoplasm

0 (0.0%)

166 (4.7%)

 

 Suspicious malignancy

30 (26.3%)

841 (23.9%)

 

 Malignancy

77 (67.5%)

2344 (66.7%)

 

Pathologic features

 Tumor size (cm)

0.8 ± 0.5

0.9 ± 0.7

0.057

 Extrathyroidal extension

  

0.317

  No

59 (51.8%)

1663 (47.3%)

 

  Microscopic

51 (44.7%)

1611 (45.8%)

 

  Gross

4 (3.5%)

240 (6.8%)

 

 Lymphatic invasion

2 (1.8%)

234 (6.7%)

0.037

 Vascular invasion

0 (0.0%)

43 (1.2%)

0.235

 Margin involvement

1 (0.9%)

205 (5.8%)

0.024

 Number of retrieved LNs

6.0 ± 5.8

6.7 ± 8.1

0.208

 LN metastasis

  

0.001

  N0

80 (70.2%)

2203 (62.7%)

 

  N1a

34 (29.8%)

950 (27.0%)

 

  N1b

0 (0.0%)

361 (10.3%)

 

131I remnant ablation

43 (37.7%)

1545 (44.0%)

0.186

131I dose (mCi)

47.2 ± 32.8

41.8 ± 35.8

0.331

Follow-up (months)

96.8 ± 29.5

96.5 ± 31.0

0.894

Recurrence

  

0.487

 Regional recurrence

1 (0.9%)

62 (2.5%)

 

 Distant metastasis

0 (0.0%)

5 (0.2%)

 
  1. Data presented as mean and standard deviation if not noted otherwise. Categorical data were compared using the chi-squared test. Data derived from continuous variables of different groups were compared by Student’s t test
  2. PTC papillary thyroid carcinoma, GD Graves’ disease, FNA fine needle aspiration, LN lymph node