From: Pathological multifocality is not a prognosis factor of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a single-center, retrospective study
Postoperative events
Multifocal (n = 61)
Unifocal (n = 269)
p-value
Recurrence
4 (6.6%)
9 (3.4%)
0.21
Lymph node
3 (4.9%)
7a (2.6%)
0.28
Local
0
Distant
1a (0.4%)
1.00
Remnant thyroid
1 (1.6%)
2 (0.8%)
0.46
Death due to PTC