Clinical significance of papillary thyroid carcinoma with solid/trabecular growth

Abstract

Objective: The clinical relevance of solid/trabecular (ST) growth in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is unclear. In this study, we investigated the impact of any amount of ST growth on tumour characteristics and patient outcomes. Furthermore, we evaluated whether ST growth per se affected patients' prognosis in the absence of aggressive features, namely vascular invasion.Design: We analysed 222 PTC patients followed up for more than 5 years in the