Clinicopathological Factors Influencing Lymph Node Yield in Colorectal Cancer: A Retrospective Study

Table 4

Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses of clinicopathological factors influencing lymph node retrieval in 1259 colon cancer specimens.

Factor	Univariate			Multivariate
	value	95% CI	OR	value	95% CI	OR
Gender	0.021	1.063-2.107	1.497	≤0.001	1.285-2.804	1.898
Specimen length	≤0.001	1.014-1.051	1.032	≤0.001	1.502-3.199	2.192
Emergency surgery	≤0.001	1.256-3.681	2.150	0.269	0.760–2.674	1.426
Tumor location	≤0.001	0.414-0.761	0.561	0.002	0.409-0.823	0.580
T status	≤0.001	1.682-2.404	2.011	≤0.001	1.192-1.876	1.495
N status	0.023	1.040-1.671	1.318	0.781	0.779-1.395	1.042
Tumor dimension	≤0.001	3.246-6.778	4.691	≤0.001	2.238-5.077	3.371

OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.