Table 4. Comparisons of clinicopathologic of FN-like and PTC-like FVPTC.
Variables | FN-like (n = 31 ) |
PTC-like (n = 52) |
P value |
---|---|---|---|
Multiplicity | 7(22.6) | 9(17.3) | 0.556 |
Extrathyroidal invasion | 1(3.2) | 4(7.7) | 0.379 |
Central LN Mets | 2(6.5) | 6(11.6) | 0.364 |
Distant Mets | 0(0.0) | 0(0.0) | NA |
n, number of patients; LN, lymph node; Mets, metastasis FN, follicular neoplasm; FV, follicular variant; PTC, papillary thyroid cancer; NA, non available.