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

Table 6

Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses of clinicopathological factors influencing lymph node retrieval in 385 rectal cancer specimens of patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment.

Factor	Univariate			Multivariate
	value	95% CI	OR	value	95% CI	OR
Specimen length	≤0.001	1.027-1.092	1.059	0.017	1.119-3.158	2.321
Emergency surgery	0.391	1.025-2.254	0.531	0.093	0.054-1.249	0.261
N positivity	0.002	1.277-2.984	1.952	0.245	0.748-3.122	1.528
T status	0.003	1.089-1.529	1.290	0.319	0.905-1.357	1.108
N status	0.011	1.086-1.865	1.423	0.777	0.677-1.686	1.068
Tumor dimension	≤0.002	1.367-4.186	2.392	0.009	1.232-3.122	2.321

OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.