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.