Table 1.

Age and sex distribution of the patients in the four subsets

	MTC	PTC	FTC	FTA	p
n	37	37	37	37	0.0512, ANOVA
mean age [years]	57	48	53	49
SD	16	16	15	12
Min	28	16	23	25
Max	94	83	87	73
males	14	6	13	10	< 0.0001, chi-square test
%	38	2	35	27
females	23	31	24	27
%	62	98	65	73

MTC: medullary thyroid carcinoma, PTC: papillary thyroid carcinoma, FTC: follicular thyroid carcinoma, FTA: follicular thyroid adenoma, SD: standard deviation, MIN: minimum, MAX: maximum