Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of PTC patients underwent ET via GUA approach with five-settlement method.

Characteristics		n = 521
Sex: n (%)
	Female	413 (79.3%)
	Male	108 (20.7%)
Age (mean ± SD; year)		37.5 ± 9.6
BMI (mean ± SD; kg/m2)		22.5 ± 3.0
Operative time (mean ± SD; min)		90.3 ± 22.8
Blood loss (mean ± SD; ml)		3.4 ± 2.7
Tumor size (mean ± SD; cm)		0.7 ± 0.3
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: n (%)		132(25.3%)
Lymph node yielded (mean ± SD)		5.7 ± 4.3
Positive central lymph node (mean ± SD)		1.0 ± 1.8
Postoperative hospital stay (mean ± SD; day)		3.4 ± 0.8