Table 1 Clinical characteristics of 168 PTC patients in southern Chinese populations
Characteristics | N = 168 |
|---|---|
No. (%) | |
Gender | |
Female | 131 (78.0) |
Male | 37 (22.0) |
Age | |
< 45 | 107 (63.7) |
≥ 45 | 61 (36.3) |
Subtypes | |
conventional PTC | 156 (92.9) |
follicular variant PTC | 12 (7.1) |
Lymph node metastasis | |
Yes | 155 (92.3) |
No | 13 (7.7) |
AJCC disease stage | |
I + II | 109 (64.9) |
III + IV | 59 (35.1) |
Lesion number | |
Single lesion | 78 (46.4) |
Multiple lesions | 90 (53.6) |