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. 2019 Feb 18;12:1269–1278. doi: 10.2147/OTT.S191700

Table 5.

Correlation between UCA1 expression and clinicopathologic characteristics of PTC patients

Patient characteristics Low UCA1 expression group High UCA1 expressiongroup P-value

Age (years) 1.0
≤45 11 13
>45 8 8
Sex 0.2812
Male 3 7
Female 16 14
Tumor diameter (cm) 0.5254
≤2 10 8
>2 9 13
Lymph node metastasis 0.0098
Negative 16 9
Positive 3 12
Stage 0.0270
I/II 15 9
III/IV 4 12

Abbreviation: PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma.