Table 1.

Patients characteristics of ECE and non-ECE group.

Characteristics	ECE	non-ECE	P value
Gender
Male	10	8	0.591
Female	43	43
Nodule No.	57	52
Age (yrs)	48.7 ± 12.8	46.9 ± 12.2	0.469
Tumor size (mm)	12.7 ± 7.8	8.2 ± 3.5	0.000

ECE: extracapsular extension.