Male Gender Is Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis but Not with Recurrence in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Figure 4

The Kaplan–Meier curves of recurrence-free survival according to (a) lymph node status, (b) gender, (c) tumor size, (d) extrathyroid extension, (e) age, and (f) chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis. LNM, lymph node metastasis. ETE, extrathyroid extension; CLT, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.

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