Clinical Study
Surgical Management of Appendicular Skeletal Metastases in Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 5
Multivariate Cox model.
| Prognostic factors | Overall survival | Survival after bone metastasis surgery | Recurrence free survival | Hazard ratio | 95% CI | value | Hazard ratio | 95% CI | value | Hazard ratio | 95% CI | value |
| Age | 1.054 | 1.02–1.09 | 0.002 | | | | | | | Radioactive iodine Y v N | 0.164 | 0.041–0.654 | 0.0104 | | | | | | | Follicular subtype | 1.589 | 0.646–3.910 | 0.313 | 0.832 | 0.396–1.748 | 0.627 | 1.547 | 0.706–3.39 | 0.276 | Skeletal presentation Multiple bone v single | | | | 2.102 | 0.783–5.643 | 0.141 | 3.097 | 1.008–9.521 | 0.0485 | Tumor excised from bone | | | | 0.242 | 0.087–0.677 | 0.0068 | 0.336 | 0.125–0.903 | 0.0306 |
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