Research Article

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

Table 5

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

FeaturesOdds ratio95% confidence interval value
Lower boundUpper bound

Gender (female)1.6770.9912.8400.054
Age at diagnosis (<45 y)2.6251.5824.356<0.001
Multifocality (+)1.2400.6522.3610.512
Bilaterality (+)2.3431.1804.6530.015
Extrathyroidal invasion (+)2.3231.3044.1360.004
Tumor size (>1 cm)4.8212.9977.755<0.001
BRAFV600E mutation (+)1.1750.7221.9110.516