Materials and methods:
Data was abstracted from the maintained electronic records of 492 patients with thyroid cancer who were treated surgically at our hospital during the period August 2011 to December 2018. Out of these 492 patients, 381 were diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer and 32 patients diagnosed clinically with metastasis from DTC at presentation or who were detected to have metastasis on follow up were included in our analysis. Patients with medullary and anaplastic carcinoma were excluded. The demographics, patterns of metastasis and surgical interventions in this rare subgroup of patients with DTC were studied in this research.