Ectopic Thyroid Cancer Cases: Clinical Features and Outcomes from 506 Patients

Min Quan's systematic review aggregates data from 506 patients with ectopic thyroid carcinoma, extracted from 348 reports published up to May 2025. The dataset includes patient demographics, tumor pathology, treatment strategies, recurrence, and survival outcomes. The analysis was registered with PROSPERO (CRD420250630606).

Use Cases

• Identify prognostic factors for survival based on patient age and tumor location mentioned in the description.
• Analyze treatment patterns and recurrence rates associated with surgery and radioiodine therapy.
• Study the demographic and clinical characteristics of a rare malignancy to inform case management.

Strengths

• Includes data from 506 patients, described as the largest case-based synthesis for this condition.
• Reports specific statistics, such as a female-to-male ratio of 1.7:1 and a mean age of 41.6 years.
• Analysis includes multivariable Cox regression and propensity-score matching for outcome assessment.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The primary data file is a 2.1 MB DOCX document, which may require parsing to extract structured data.
• Row count for the underlying patient-level data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Systematic literature review of PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science.

Collection Method

Data extracted from 348 eligible reports identified in the review.

Time Range

Literature search from database inception to May 27, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 04:46:54; freshness should be verified.