Table 1.
Cases of incidentally discovered nodal PTC in NDs for malignancies other than thyroid origin
| Authors | Nr of cases | Thyroidectomy | Thyroid histology
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTC (−) | PTC(+) | Other | |||
| López-Escámez et al. [12] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | granulomatous inflammation |
| Fliegelman et al. [13] | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Coskun et al. [14] | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ansari-Lari and Westra [15] | 10 | 9 | 1 | 7 | medulary carcinoma, 1; calcification, 1 |
| Resta et al. [16] | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | hyperplasia, 2 |
| León et al. [17] | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Wang et al. [18] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Yamamoto et al. [19] | 3 | 0 | |||
| Kr et al. [20] | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Total | 35 | 27 | 7 | 16 | |
Nr, Number; PTC, (−), absence of PTC; (+), presence of PTC