The clinical features of papillary thyroid cancer in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients from an area with a high prevalence of Hashimoto’s disease

Table 3 Comparison of the clinicopathological factors in PTC patients with TSH

	PTC with HT	PTC without HT	P value	PTC with HT	PTC only	P value	PTC with HT	PTC with Benign	P value
Number of patients	358(13.67%)	2262(86.34%)		358(13.67%)	1270(48.47%)		358(13.67%)	992(37.86%)
Age (years)	42.64±12.04	44.21±11.83	0.058	42.64±12.04	44.29±11.73	0.020	42.64±12.04	44.12±11.95	0.023
Female	350	1640	0.001	350	925	0.000	350	715	0.001
Nodule size (cm)	1.21±0.90	1.33±0.81	0.001	1.21±0.90	1.23±0.78	0.845	1.21±0.90	1.45±0.84	0.001
Invasion	69	506	0.250	69	342	0.003	69	164	0.178
Level VI	153	1358	0.001	153	827	0.001	153	531	0.001
Lateral ^&	37	349	0.133	37	216	0.635	37	133	0.427
TSH	3.26±2.54	2.53±1.72	0.001	3.26±2.54	2.45±1.59	0.001	3.26±2.54	2.63±1.86	0.001

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