The Clinicopathological Features of BRAF Mutated Papillary Thyroid Cancers in Chinese Patients

Table 4

Multivariate analysis of the association between clinicopathological features and central LNM.

Features	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval		value
		Lower bound	Upper bound
Gender (female)	2.441	1.552	3.840	<0.001
Age at diagnosis (<45 y)	2.661	1.818	3.894	<0.001
Multifocality (+)	1.115	0.692	1.797	0.655
Bilaterality (+)	1.641	0.911	2.957	0.099
Extrathyroidal invasion (+)	1.389	0.932	2.072	0.107
Tumor size (>1 cm)	3.288	2.157	5.010	<0.001
BRAF^V600E mutation (+)	0.954	0.624	1.457	0.826