Research Article

Influence of Obesity Parameters on Different Regional Patterns of Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Table 1

Baseline clinical characteristics of patients with PTC.

CharacteristicsResults

Sex
 Men272 (26.8%)
 Women743 (73.2%)
Age (mean ± SD, years)43.4 ± 12.2
 ≥55195 (19.2%)
 <55820 (80.8%)
BMI (Mean ± SD, kg/m2)24.03 ± 3.88
 Normal647 (63.7%)
 Overweight310 (30.5%)
 Obesity58 (5.7%)
BFP (Mean ± SD,%)24.30 ± 10.49
 Nonobesity (men)111 (10.9%)
 Obesity (men)161 (15.9%)
 Nonobesity (women)481 (47.4%)
 Obesity (women)262 (25.8%)
BSA (mean ± SD, m2)1.70 ± 0.18
 Nonobesity (men)62 (6.1%)
 Obesity (men)210 (20.7%)
 Nonobesity (women)586 (57.7%)
 Obesity (women)157 (15.5%)
Maximum tumor size (Mean ± SD, cm)1.32 ± 1.00
 ≤1531 (52.3%)
 >1 to ≤2325 (32.0%)
 >2 to ≤4134 (13.2%)
 >425 (2.5%)
The number of foci
 1679 (66.9%)
 2223 (22.0%)
 3 or more113 (11.1%)
BRAF V600E mutation839 (82.7%)
CLT272 (26.8%)
ETE207 (20.4%)
CLNM593 (58.4%)
LLNM211 (20.8%)
Level II metastasis94 (9.3%)
Level III metastasis160 (15.8%)
Level IV metastasis176 (17.3%)
Level V metastasis48 (4.7%)
Skip metastasis22 (2.2%)
MLLNM181 (17.8%)
Simultaneous metastasis in LC162 (16.0%)
No. of removed LNs in CC (mean ± SD)7.6 ± 5.0
No. of metastatic LNs in CC (mean ± SD)2.1 ± 2.9
Central LNR (mean ± SD)0.29 ± 0.33
No. of removed LNs in LC (mean ± SD)28.0 ± 10.9
No. of metastatic LNs in LC (mean ± SD)5.3 ± 4.0
Lateral LNR (mean ± SD)0.05 ± 0.31

PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma; SD, standard deviation; BMI, body mass index; BFP, body fat percentage; BSA, body surface area; CLT, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis; ETE, extrathyroidal extension; CLNM, central lymph node metastasis; LLNM, lateral lymph node metastasis; MLLNM, multiple lateral lymph node metastasis; LN, lymph node; CC, central compartment; LC, lateral compartment; and LNR, lymph node ratio.