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Table 4 Pathological characteristics of incidentally detected metastatic PTC

From: Clinicopathological features of incidentally detected metastatic thyroid papillary carcinoma in cervical lymph nodes of non-thyroid cancer patients: a retrospective analysis of 31cases

Clinical features

N(%)

Levels of lymph nodes

 

Central

22(38.6%)

Lateral

30(52.6%)

Unknown

5(8.8%)

Number of foci

 

Unifocal

20(64.5%)

Multifocal

11(35.5%)

Structure of morphology

 

Papillary

10(45.5%)

Follicular

12(54.5%)

Nuclear feature of PTC

 

Yes

12(54.5%)

No

10(45.5%)

Psammoma bodies

 

Yes

4(18.2%)

No

18(81.8%)

BRAF V600E staining

 

Positive

6(35.3%)

Negative

11 (64.7%)

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Diagnostic Pathology

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