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