Gender-Specific Risk of Central Compartment Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 3

Multivariate analysis of the correlation between clinical factors of the primary tumor and rate of CLNM in all PTC patients.

Variables	OR	CI
Gender (female)	0.475	0.304–0.744	0.001
Age (≥45 y)	0.264	0.181–0.386	<0.001
Margin (irregular)	1.378	0.947–2.006	0.094
Tumor size (>1 cm)	2.51	1.61–3.915	<0.001
Multifocality (multifocal)	1.766	1.202–2.595	0.004

CLNM: central lymph node metastases.