Gender-Specific Risk of Central Compartment Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 5

Multivariate analysis of the correlation between clinical factors of the primary tumor and rate of CLNM in male and female patients.

Variables	OR	CI
Male group
Age (≥45 y)	0.220	0.093–0.519	0.001
T4, μg/dL	1.374	1.096–1.723	0.006
Multifocality (multifocal)	2.656	1.135–6.215	0.024
Margin (irregular)	1.241	0.549–2.807	0.604
Female group
Age (≥45 y)	0.289	0.187–0.446	<0.001
Tumor size (>1 cm)	2.761	1.681–4.535	<0.001
Multifocality (multifocal)	1.966	1.284–3.010	0.002
Calcification
Micro-/noncalcification	1.822	1.069–3.103	0.027
Coarse/noncalcification	1.427	0.712–2.858	0.316

CLNM: central lymph node metastases.