Table 1.

Clinicopathological Characteristics of the 125 Patients With SMTC.

Characteristic	Value
Sex, male/female (n)	46/79
Age (years)	48.8 ± 11.2
BMI (kg/m2)	23.9 ± 3.3
Major tumor size (cm)	2.0 ± 1.3
Total tumor size (cm)	2.2 ± 1.8
Central lymph node metastases (n)	59 (47.2%)
Lateral lymph node metastases (n)	49 (39.2%)
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio	2.4 ± 1.4
Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio	155.3 ± 87.8

SMTC: sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma; BMI: body mass index.

The continuous variables are presented as the means ± standard deviations.