Research Article
A Study on Central Lymph Node Metastasis in 543 cN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Patients
Table 1
Univariate analysis for PTC patients with CLND.
| Risk factors | CLN | Univariate analysis | Positive | Negative | | |
| Gender | | | 6.385 | 0.012 | Female | 144 | 266 | | | Male | 63 | 70 | | | Age (years) | | | 11.2 | 0.001 | 45 | 102 | 117 | | | 45 | 105 | 335 | | | Bilaterality | | | 4.131 | 0.042 | Yes | 61 | 73 | | | No | 146 | 263 | | | Multifocality | | | 3.797 | 0.051 | Yes | 79 | 101 | | | No | 128 | 235 | | | Tumor size (cm) | | | 9.407 | 0.002 | 0.25 | 2 | 24 | | | 0.25 | 205 | 312 | | | Extrathyroidal extension | | | 8.639 | 0.003 | Yes | 22 | 14 | | | No | 185 | 322 | | | HT | | | 2.44 | 0.118 | Yes | 64 | 126 | | | No | 143 | 210 | | | Abnormal thyroid function | | | 0.102 | 0.75 | Yes | 31 | 47 | | | No | 176 | 289 | | |
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