Research Article
Ultrasound Microvascular Blood Flow Evaluation: A New Tool for the Management of Thyroid Nodule?
Table 4
Multivariate analysis of characteristics predicting the malignancy.
| Predictors | OR (95% CI) | value |
| Gender | 0.11 (0.04-0.28) | 0.001 | Age | 0.99 (0.96-1.01) | 0.547 | Hypoechogenicity | 0.79 (0.56-1.13) | 0.208 | Microcalcification | 1.34 (0.69-2.60) | 0.373 | Blurred margins | 0.92 (0.45-1.87) | 0.547 | Intranodular vascularization | 1.90 (1,00-3.63) | 0.061 | SMI | 6.99 (3.46-12.09) | 0.001 |
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