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

ABSTRACT:

Background

The goal of this study was to identify the clinicopathological factors of co-existing papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and provide information to aid in the diagnosis of such patients.

Methods

This study included 6109 patients treated in a university-based tertiary care cancer hospital over a 3-year period. All of the patients were categorised based on their final diagnosis. Several clinicopathological factors, such as age, gender, nodular size, invasive status, central compartment lymph node metastasis (CLNM) and serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level, were compared between the various groups of patients.

Results

There were 653 patients with a final diagnosis of HT. More PTC was found in those with HT (58.

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547693 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature