Table 3.
The correlation between the background disease and other clinicopathological parameters
| Background disease | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT | Non-CLT | ||
| Age | |||
| < 45 years | 14 | 52 | 0.950 |
| ≥ 45 years | 13 | 47 | |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 24 | 72 | 0.081 |
| Male | 3 | 27 | |
| Tumor size | |||
| ≤ 2 cm | 18 | 65 | 0.561 |
| > 2 and ≤4 cm | 9 | 30 | |
| > 4 cm | 0 | 4 | |
| Extrathyroid invasion | |||
| - | 11 | 19 | 0.020 |
| + | 16 | 80 | |
| pT | |||
| 1b | 9 | 16 | 0.089 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 3 | 16 | 79 | |
| pN | |||
| 0 | 11 | 36 | 0.203 |
| 1a | 13 | 36 | |
| 1b | 3 | 27 | |
| Stage grouping | |||
| I + II | 7 | 9 | 0.032 |
| III | 17 | 64 | |
| IVA | 3 | 26 | |
| Psamomma body | |||
| - | 10 | 48 | 0.290 |
| + | 17 | 51 | |
| Stromal calcification | |||
| - | 16 | 49 | 0.368 |
| + | 11 | 50 | |
| Bone formation | |||
| - | 27 | 96 | 0.839 |
| + | 0 | 3 | |
| Multifocality | |||
| Unifocal | 19 | 69 | 0.946 |
| Multifocal | 8 | 30 | |
| TILs | |||
| Poor | 5 | 88 | 0.001 |
| Rich | 22 | 11 | |
pT pathological tumor category, pN pathological lymph node category, TILs tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, CLT chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis