Table 1.

Comparison of IL-10 positivity and clinical and pathological features of aggressiveness of 162 differentiated thyroid carcinomas

Variable	IL-10 positivity
	Mean	SD	p value
Gender
Female	0.77	0.142	0.619
Male	0.773	0.116
Histological type
Classic PTC	0.763	0.141	0.208
Follicular variant of PTC	0.747	0.155
Poor differentiated PTC	0.817	0.096
FTC	0.801	0.129
Multifocality
Absent	0.767	0.139	0.699
Present	0.758	0.142
Extrathyroidal invasion
Absent	0.731	0.147	0.004
Present	0.802	0.125
Concurrent CT
Absent	0.765	0.137	0.799
Present	0.772	0.146
TIL
Absent	0.746	0.148	0.017
Present	0.798	0.127
LN metastasis at diagnosis
Absent	0.752	0.144	0.223
Present	0.782	0.132
pTNM
I	0.76	0.14	0.307
II	0.742	0.148
III	0.757	0.149
IV	0.805	0.153

Bold values represent p-value < 0.05

Equality of means was assessed with t-test

SD standard deviation; PTC papillary thyroid carcinoma; FTC follicular thyroid carcinoma