Parikh HK et al. – Follicular carcinoma incidence is significantly high in india (48%), with 65% of study pts in a high-risk grp and 53% incidence of contralateral lobe disease after thyroidectomy; thus more aggressive treatment policy is warranted with total thyroidectomy as the treatment of choice Methods
Retrospective study of the impact of pt and tumor factors on survival
Development of a simple risk-grp staging system (high vs low risk) to predict survival in pts with differentiated thyroid carcinomas
Review of 417 pts: follicular carcinomas, 198; papillary carcinomas, 219
Results
Factors with significant impact on survival: age ≤ 40 yrs, tumor size <5 cm, extrrathyroidal spread, and distant metastasis; impact remained for subset analysis of follicular and papillary carcinomas separately
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