Research Article

[Retracted] Unilateral Multifocality and Bilaterality Could Be Two Different Multifocal Entities in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma

Table 3

Risk factors of LNM.

UnivariateMultivariate
OR (95% CI) value (SE) valueOR (95% CI)

Age (<45 vs. ≥45)0.537 (0.284-1.015)0.052///
Gender (female vs. male)1.921 (1.009-3.655)0.043///
Tumor size (≤0.5 vs. >0.5 cm)4.146 (1.906-9.019)<0.0011.1370.0053.117 (1.413-6.879)
Unilateral multifocality1.762 (0.870-3.566)0.111///
Bilaterality1.244 (0.586-2.641)0.569///
Capsular invasion1.773 (0.893-3.518)0.097///
Extrathyroidal invasion2.221 (0.501-9.848)0.254///
Hashimoto0.539 (0.209-1.387)0.193///
Simple goiter1.440 (0.785-2.639)0.236///
CNM5.668 (2.920-11.001)<0.0011.549<0.0014.708 (2.403-9.226)