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Table 2.

Clinical and pathological characteristics of the 187 follicular variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Characteristics	Number of patients (n = 187)
Age, years	≤45	108
Age, years	>45	79

Gender	Female	160
Gender	Male	27

Multiplicity	Single	142
Multiplicity	Multiple	45

Tumor size (cm)	≤1	120
	1 < T ≤ 2	41
	2 < T ≤ 4	21
	>4	5

Capsulation	Absent	77
Capsulation	Present	110

Extrathyroidal extension	Absent	162
Extrathyroidal extension	Present	25

Resection margin	Clear	182
Resection margin	Involvement	5

Lymph node metastases	Absent	104
	Present	25
	Not evaluated	58

Distant metastases at diagnosis	Absent	185
Distant metastases at diagnosis	Present	2