Table 1.

Patients’ demographics and characteristics.

	Total N (n = 1584)	%
Age
⩽45	909	63.5
Gender
Female	1131	71
Race
White	805	51
Black	161	10
Other	618	39
Histology
Papillary	1440	91
Follicular	144	9
Lymph node metastasis
Positive	340	22
TNM stage
I	795	50
II	210	13
III	222	14
IV	91	6
RAI
Yes	767	48
Treatment strategy
Total thyroidectomy	1297	82
Lobectomy	261	16.5
Other procedure	26	1.5

Abbreviations: RAI, radioactive iodine; TNM, tumor, node, metastasis.