Table 2.

The clinical and pathological characteristics of central lymph nodes of 195 patients treated with surgery for PTMC.

	CLN Positive (n = 52, 27%)	CLN Negative (n = 143, 73%)	p-Value
Age, years (mean ± SD)	45 ± 13	50 ± 12	0.012
Gender	Female: 37 (71%) Male: 15 (29%)	Female: 126 (88%) Male: 17 (12%)	0.008
Sub-capsular localization	25 (48%)	41 (28%)	0.01
Multifocality	20 (38%)	36 (25%)	0.07
Follicular variant subtype	10 (19%)	42 (29%)	0.2

PTMC: papillary thyroid micro-carcinoma; CLN: central lymph nodes.