Effect of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis on the dual-energy CT quantitative parameters and performance in diagnosing metastatic cervical lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer

Table 1 Demographics and lymph nodes distribution of PTC patients with HT and without HT.

Variables	With HT	Without HT	p value
Patients	124	109
Sex			0.002
Male Female	29 95	46 63
Age (years)			0.002
Median (interquartile range)	32.0 (28.0–40.0)	37.0 (31.0- 44.5)
LNs distribution Metastatic Nonmetastatic	255 62 193	224 93 131	0.001
Lateral LNs Metastatic Nonmetastatic	174 25 149	166 35 131	0.118

Note: PTC, papillary thyroid cancer; HT, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; LN, lymph nodes
p values indicate the comparisons among sex, age, and numbers of metastatic and nonmetastatic LNs in the cervical and lateral cervical regions between patients with HT and without HT in column order

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