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Table 3 Postoperative events

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

0

 

Distant

0

1a (0.4%)

1.00

Remnant thyroid

1 (1.6%)

2 (0.8%)

0.46

Death due to PTC

0

0

 
  1. PTC papillary thyroid carcinoma
  2. aIncluding 1 case where metastases were found in the lymph node and lung at the same time