Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of patient’s clinicopathological factors (N=63)

Clinicopathological factors	No. of patients	TLR3 expression		P value
		−~++	+++~++++
Gender
Female	47	21	26	0.6161
Male	16	6	10
Age
<45 years	32	16	16	0.2444
≥45 years	31	11	20
TNM staging
I-II	41	20	21	0.1946
III-IV	22	7	15
Extrathyroidal invasion
Yes	19	6	13	0.2346
No	44	21	23
Lymph nodes metastasis
Yes	30	8	22	0.0133
No	33	19	14