A Comparison of Two Operation Methods Revealed the Risk Factors and the Necessity of LN-prRLN Dissection in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study in FUSCC

Table 4

Multivariate analysis of factors associated with LN-prRLN metastasis.

Variables	OR	value
Sex (Female vs. male)	0.61 (0.34–1.13)	0.116
Size	1.45 (1.02–2.06)	0.039
Extensive invasion (yes vs. No)	1.63 (0.70–3.84)	0.258
Co-HT (yes vs. No)	0.62 (0.35–1.10)	0.104
cLNMa (yes vs. No)	1.28 (1.11–1.48)	0.001
cLNMa number	2.03 (0.99–4.13)	0.051
Lateral LNM (yes vs. No)	1.98 (1.09–3.62)	0.025

Co-HT: concurrent Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; cLNMa: central lymph nodes anterior to the right recurrent laryngeal nerve.