Table 1.
Pre-surgical clinicopathological features of PTC patients with concurrent HT.
| Age (years) | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical features | < 70 | ≥ 70 | |
| Number of patients | 74 | 18 | |
| Age at diagnosis years, mean, range | 79.4, 70-88 | 50.4, 21-67 | |
| Gender (male) | 29.8% | 33.3% | n.s. |
| Substitutive therapy with L-T4 | 41.8% | 33.3% | n.s. |
| Tumor volume mL, mean, range | 1.4, 1.0-22.2 | 2.5, 1.5-5.5 | n.s. |
| Multinodularity | 75% | 78% | n.s. |
| Cervical lymphadenopathya | 7 | 2 | n.s. |
| Neck irradiation | 0 | 1 | |
| Symptoms of compression | 1 | 0 | |
| Fast growthb | 0 | 0 | |
| Symptoms of infiltration | 0 | 0 | |
| Familiarity for thyroid carcinoma | 1 | 0 | |
a, detected by ultrasonography; b, doubling of the tumor volume in 1 year; n.s., not significant