Fig. 3From: Clinical and prognosis value of the number of metastatic lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid carcinomaRFS according to the NMLNs by Kaplan–Meier curves. a These showed poorer RFS in the NMLNs > 5 than NMLNs ≤ 5 (97.7% vs 100.0%, P = 0.001). b There was no significant difference in RFS between CLNs ≤ 5 and CLNs > 5 (99.6% vs 98.1%, P = 0.051). c These showed poorer RFS in the LLNs > 5 than LLNs ≤ 5 (94.3% vs 99.8%, P < 0.001)Back to article page