… slowly progressing tumour, some clinicopathological features indicate poor prognosis. This
study evaluated the prognostic significance according to extent of ETE, especially gross ETE …

… We examined the prognostic significance of the tumor size (T), extrathyroid extension (Ex),
age 55 years or older (Age), male gender (Gender), clinical node metastasis (N), and …

Introduction: The pathological diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is generally
easy on routine sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). However, the …

… Hence, the present study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of MEE, as well as
its effect on cervical lymph node recurrence and recurrence-free survival, by comparing and …

… be a prominent prognostic factor. We also found sex to be of prognostic importance-males …
but it was not of major importance, ranking only seventh in importance among nine prognostic …

… We have to note that the prognostic significance for lymph node and distant recurrence-free
and cause-specific survival of Ex and N varies according to the tumor size in order to …

… studying the clinical characteristics of this disease, there have been efforts to evaluate
whether the various molecular markers found in thyroid carcinoma have prognostic significance. …

… In the present study, therefore, we investigated the prognostic significance of patient age
by dividing FTC patients into three categories: < 20 years (children and adolescents), 20–44 …

… prognostic factor of DFS together with patient age and extrathyroidal extension. We also
analyzed the prognostic significance of … for regional lymph nodes of thyroid carcinoma. Since the …

… As the prevalence of positive TgAb in our DTC population was 10% and the probability of
recurrence of disease in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has been reported to reach 20% at …