Using preoperative ultrasound vascularity characteristics to estimate medullary thyroid cancer

Cancer Imaging

Table 1 Comparison of clinical characteristics

Variable	l-MTC	h-MTC	P
No.	31	85
Age, y (median)	48.00	47.45	0.078
Sex (female/male)	17/14	51/34	0.38
Tumour size (cm)	2.15	1.37	< 0.001
Preoperative Ct level (pg/mL)	416.80	443.58	0.88
Preoperative CEA level (pg/mL)	43.98	38.23	0.75

Abbreviations: No., number; y, years old; Ct, calcitonin; l-MTC, ultrasound-low suspicious medullary thyroid carcinoma; h-MTC, ultrasound-high suspicious medullary thyroid carcinoma

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