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Table 1 Demographics and pathologic findings

From: The role of prophylactic central compartment lymph node dissection in elderly patients with differentiated thyroid cancer: a multicentric study

 

Group A

Group B

p Value

Patients

184

187

 

Male/ Female ratio

46/138

53/134

0.466

Age 65–74

152

146

0.272

Age 75+

32

41

Histologic Features:

 • Microcarcinoma %

29.8

31.5

0.729

 • Unifocal %

84.2

86.1

0.614

 • Multifocal %

15.7

13.9

0.614

pTNM stage %

 • I

91.8

88.2

0.245

 • II

5.9

8.5

0.339

 • III

2.1

3.2

0.538

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