NT5E and neoplasm: High CD73 expression was significantly associated with female gender (p = 0.047), aggressive histologic variant (p = 0.002), extrathyroidal extension (p < 0.001), gross extrathyroidal extension (p = 0.010), higher pathologic (p) T category (p = 0.024), lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001), dyscohesive tumor cells seen at the invasive front (p < 0.001), structural disease recurrence (p = 0.024), and BRAFV600E (p = 0.015).