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. 2023 Nov 17;14:1273498. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1273498

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of included studies.

Author Study Design PTC and HT Diagnosis Grouping N Patients Age (Years) Female (%) BRAF (+) N (%)
Kim et al., 2009, South Korea R PTC: Histopathology
HT: Histopathology
PTC 64 44.1 ± 13.4 84.4 61 (95.31)
PTC-HT 37 49.4 ± 12.7 97.3 27 (72.97)
Marotta et al., 2013, Italy P PTC: Histopathology
HT: Histopathology
PTC 92 56.1 71.7 72 (78.26)
PTC-HT 54 50.2 92.6 44 (81.48)
Kim et al., 2016, South Korea R PTC: Histopathology
HT: Histopathology
PTC 2326 47.6 ± 11.9 72.5 2015 (86.63)
PTC-HT 1006 46 ± 11.4 90.7 774 (76.94)
Zeng et al., 2016, China R PTC: Histopathology
HT: Histopathology
PTC 397 45.5 ± 11.8 72.8 325 (81.86)
PTC-HT 222 45.9 ± 12.1 87.8 140 (63.06)
Kim et al., 2018, South Korea R PTC: NR
HT: Histopathology
PTC 124 50.06 ± 11.51 86.3 102 (82.26)
PTC-HT 48 46.44 ± 10.62 93.8 28 (58.33)
Ozdamar et al., 2020, Turkey P PTC: Cytopathology
HT: Histopathology
PTC 19 45.68 ± 14.3 84.2 6 (31.58)
PTC-HT 18 47.94 ± 14.84 100 5 (27.78)
Kim et al., 2005, South Korea R PTC: Histopathology
HT: Histopathology
PTC 51 NR NR 46 (90.20)
PTC-HT 28 NR NR 18 (64.29)
Kim et al., 2016a, South Korea P PTC: NR
HT: Histopathology
PTC 1576 47.2 ± 12.0 81.8 1223 (77.60)
PTC-HT 204 44.8 ± 11.9 97 122 (59.80)
Issa et al., 2022, Switzerland R PTC: NR
HT: Sonography and Serology
PTC 106 NR 75.3 52 (49.06)
PTC-HT 23 NR 85.2 9 (39.13)

R, retrospective; P, prospective; PTC, Papillary thyroid carcinoma; HT, Hashimoto thyroiditis; NR, not reported.