TABLE 2.

Pathology

Variable	Total Thyroid (N=30)	Total Thyroid + Central Neck Dissection (CND) (N=30)*	p-value
Tumor Size (cm)	2.45± 0.26	1.91±0.21	0.12
Multifocal	13 (43.3%)	14 (48.3%)	0.80
Extra-thyroidal Extension# (ETE)	4 (13.3%)	3 (10.3%)	1.00
Vascular Invasion	1 (3.3%)	5 (17.2%)	0.10
High Risk Pathology	1 (3.3%)	1 (3.4%)	1.00
Follicular Variant of PTC	6 (20.0%)	4 (13.7%)	0.73
Positive Margins	2 (6.7%)	2 (6.9%)	1.00
Tumor Staging
T1 Tumor	13 (43.3%)	18 (62.1%)	0.20
T2 Tumor	10 (33.3%)	7 (24.1%)	0.57
T3 Tumor (>4 cm or ETE)	7 (23.3%)	4 (13.7%)	0.51
# of lymph nodes (LN) removed	0.77±0.24	7.10±0.92	<0.001
Positive Nodes	10.0%	27.6%	0.10
Largest Positive node (cm)	0.30±0.1	0.41±0.05	0.33
# of Positive LN	0.40± 0.24	1.66±0.67	0.09

^#ETE was invasion into the strap muscles, there was no gross ETE into surrounding organs identified

^*1 additional patient was initially randomized to CND but found to not have cancer on final pathology and was excluded from all analyses