Surgical and Pathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents

Table 4

Risk factors for regional metastatic spread, a logistic regression model.

	OR	95% CL		𝑃
		Upper	Lower
Gender
Male	1,919	1,30	2,84	0,012
Female	0,591	0,35	0,77	0,012
Older Age	0,537	0,38	0,75	0,0003
Multicentricity
Ipsilateral	1,062	0,63	1,78	0,8187
Bilateral/contralateral	3,119	2,12	4,59	0,0000
Expansive tm growth
No expansion	0,540	0,38	0,77	0,0007
Capsule invasion/no clear border	1,022	0,71	1,47	0,9056
Wider aggression	2,591	1,69	3,97	0,0000
Additional diagnosis
Lymphomatous goiter	0,633	0,40	1,00	0,0485