Table 1.

Demographic data (n = 21).

Variable	Value
Sex
Female	12(57.1%)
Male	9(42.9%)
Age (mean ± SD) (years)	37.5 ± 10.4
BMI (mean ± SD) (kg/m2)	22.6 ± 2.4
Nodule size (mean ± SD) (cm)	1.4 ± 1.3
Maximum nodule size (cm)	4.9
Nodule location
Left	11(52.4%)
Right	10(47.6%)
Pathology
Benign nodule	5(23.8%)
PTMC	14(66.7%)
PTC	2(9.5%)
Lymph node stage in cancer patients
N0	8(50%)
N1a	8(50%)

BMI, body mass index; PTMC, papillary thyroid micro-carcinoma; PTC, papillary thyroid cancer.