Open AccessClinicopathological, immunohistochemical factors and recurrence associated with extrathyroidal extension in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma
Author(s) -
Woo Young Kim,
Hoon Yub Kim,
Gil Soo Son,
Jeoung Won Bae,
Jae Bok Lee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.131366
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid carcinoma , immunohistochemistry , lymph node , thyroidectomy , univariate analysis , lymph node metastasis , retrospective cohort study , logistic regression , metastasis , multivariate analysis , thyroid , oncology , gastroenterology , cancer
Extrathyroidal extension (ETE) is one of the most important factors correlated to poor outcome of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, the role of ETE in the prognosis of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) and the factor associated with ETE of PTMC are unclear. We investigated clinicopathological, immunohistochemical factors associated with ETE of PTMC to identify whether PTMC with ETE would have more adverse prognostic factors and higher risk for recurrence.