Objective To investigate expression,significance and relationship of IMP3 and CD44v6 protein in papillary thyroid carcinoma.Methods Immunohistochemical method was used to investigate the expression of IMP3 and CD44v6 protein in 30 cases PTC(10 follicular variant of papillary carcinoma cases,20 conventional papillary thyroid carcinoma cases),20 PTC with lymph node metastasis cases,20 benign tissues of thyroid cases.Quantitative analysis of the detection was conducted by Biosens Digital Imaging System vl.6 (professional image analysis software),and the target integral optical density (IOD) was used for the judgement parameter.Results IMP3 and CD44v6 expression in the PTC is higher than in benign group,the difference was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05) ; IMP3 and CD44v6 expression in PTC with lymph node metastasis was higher than without lymph node metastasis in the organization to express,the difference was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05) ; There was a positive correlation between IMP3 and CD44v6 expression and metastasis in PTC (r =0.903,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The expression of IMP3 and CD44v6 protein was closely correlated with the invasion and metastasis of PTC.IMP3 and CD44v6 protein might be considered as molecular markers for PTC.