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. 2017 Mar 30;12(3):e0174737. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174737

Table 1. Baseline patient demographics and clinicopathologic features of papillary thyroid carcinoma in two data-set.

Variables
Mean age (years)
This study (n = 512)
47.0 ± 13.3
TCGA
46.8 ± 15.5
Age (years) n = 364
 < 45 213 (41.6%) 168 (46.2%)
 ≥ 45 299 (58.4%) 196 (53.8%)
Sex n = 364
 Female 405 (79.1%) 271 (74.5%)
 Male 107 (20.9%) 93 (25.5%)
Multifocality NA
 Single 290 (56.6%)
 Multiple 222 (43.4%)
Histologic variants n = 364
 Classic 451 (88.1%) 249 (68.4%)
 Follicular variant 16 (3.1%) 81 (22.3%)
 Tall cell variant 21 (4.1%) 28 (7.7%)
 Others 24 (4.7%) 6 (1.6%)
Tumor size (cm) 1.6 ± 0.7 NA
pT stage n = 362
 pT1-2 138 (27.0%) 231 (63.8%)
 pT3-4 374 (73.0%) 131 (36.2%)
Extrathyroidal extension n = 354
 Absent 137 (26.8%) 250 (70.6%)
 Present 375 (73.2%) 104 (29.4%)
pN stage n = 364
 pN0 160 (31.3%) 172 (47.3%)
 pN1 323 (63.1%) 153 (42.0%)
 pNx 29 (5.7%) 39 (10.7%)
Lateral LN metastasis n = 325
 Absent 408 (79.7%) 277 (85.2%)
 Present 104 (20.3%) 48 (14.8%)
Distant metastasis n = 363
 Absent 505 (98.6%) 357 (98.3%)
 Present 7 (1.4%) 6 (1.7%)
AJCC stage n = 362
 I 248 (48.4%) 209 (57.7%)
 II 93 (18.2%) 41 (11.3%)
 III 121 (23.6%) 77 (21.3%)
 IV 50 (9.8%) 35 (9.7%)
BRAF V600E mutation n = 428 n = 375
 Absent 75 (17.5%) 147 (39.2%)
 Present 353 (82.5%) 228 (60.8%)
Dyscohesive cells NA
 0% 163 (31.8%)
 1%-10% 159 (31.1%)
 11%-20% 113 (22.1%)
 ≥ 20% 77 (15.0%)
Psammoma bodies NA
 0 298 (58.2%)
 1–3 135 (26.4%)
 ≥ 4 79 (15.4%)
Persistent/Recurrent disease NA
 Absent 476 (93.0%)
 Present 36 (7.0%)

TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas; NA, not available.