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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Identifying risk factors for metastasis to the level VII lymph node in papillary thyroid carcinoma patients

Variablea

Total

(n = 275)

Gender, n (%)

275 (100)

 Male

63 (22.91)

 Female

212 (77.09)

Age in years, mean (SD)

46.07 (12.03)

Size in cm, mean (SD)

1.06 (0.75)

Level VII lymph node metastasis, n (%)

 Yes

79 (28.73)

 No

196 (71.27)

Produre, n (%)

 Lobectomy + CLND

135 (49.09)

 TT + CLND

54 (19.64)

 TT + CLND + LLND

77 (28.0)

 Lobectomy + CLND + LLND

9 (3.27)

cN, n (%)

 cN0

145 (52.7)

 cN1a

58 (21.1)

 cN1b

72 (26.2)

T, n (%)

 T1

201 (73.1)

 T2

12 (4.4)

 T3

50 (18.2)

 T4

12 (4.4)

  1. aContinuous variables are presented as means and standard deviations (SD); categorical variables are presented as n (%). CLND central-compartment lymph node dissection, TT total thyroidectomy, LLND lateral-compartment lymph node dissection