Research Article
Clinical Characteristics Related to Central Lymph Node Metastasis in cN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study of 916 Patients
Table 6
Multivariate logistic regression for CLN metastasis.
| Variables | | S.E | Sig. | Exp() | 95.0% CI Exp() | Lower | Upper |
| Gender (male versus female) | 0.31 | 0.22 | 0.17 | 1.36 | 0.88 | 2.09 | Age (≤35 years versus >35 years) | 1.15 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 3.14 | 2.07 | 4.78 | Tumor size ( cm versus cm) | 1.31 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 3.69 | 2.41 | 5.67 | Capsule invasion (present/extracapsular versus absent) | 0.57 | 0.19 | 0.00 | 1.76 | 1.23 | 2.54 | Tumor location (upper/middle/whole versus lower) | 0.94 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 2.55 | 1.69 | 3.84 | Constant | −1.52 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.22 | | |
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