Table 4 Distribution of Patients with Metastatic Thyroid Cancers According to Sex and Histopathology
From: Clinicopathological profile and management of thyroid carcinoma: a Sub-Saharan country experience
| Â | Site(s) of metastasis | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bone | Lung | liver | brain | bone + lung | bone + brain | liver + lung | lung + brain | ||
Gender | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Female | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40 |
Male | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
Histopathology | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Follicular | 9 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
Anaplastic | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
Papillary | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Medullary | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Other rare types | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |