Trends in white blood cell and platelet indices in a comparison of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and multinodular goiter do not permit differentiation between the conditions

Abstract

White blood cell and platelet indices cannot assist in distinguishing benign goiter from thyroid cancer. However, they can provide information about tumor multifocality, extrathyroidal extension, and presence of a T3 tumor, and they may be used as a means to exclude these pathological characteristics, especially the last two, in papillary thyroid carcinoma.