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Table 1 Age and sex distribution of the patients in the four subsets

From: Ultrasound characteristics of follicular and parafollicular thyroid neoplasms: diagnostic performance of artificial neural network

 

MTC

PTC

FTC

FTA

p

n

37

37

37

37

0.0512, ANOVA

mean age [years]

57

48

53

49

 

SD

16

16

15

12

 

Min

28

16

23

25

 

Max

94

83

87

73

 

males

14

6

13

10

< 0.0001, chi-square test

%

38

2

35

27

 

females

23

31

24

27

 

%

62

98

65

73

 
  1. MTC: medullary thyroid carcinoma, PTC: papillary thyroid carcinoma, FTC: follicular thyroid carcinoma, FTA: follicular thyroid adenoma, SD: standard deviation, MIN: minimum, MAX: maximum