Optimal surgical extent of lateral and central neck dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma located in one lobe with clinical lateral lymph node metastasis

Table 3 Statistical analysis of factors related to contralateral central compartment lymph node metastasis

	*P-value*
Factors	Univariate analysis	Multivariate analysis
Gender	0.363	0.525
Age (45≤)	0.563	0.908
Stage	0.386	0.568
Multiplicity	0.124	0.148
Location of primary tumor (upper third or lower two-thirds)	0.575	0.873
Size of primary tumor	0.198	0.260
Minimal extrathyroidal extension	0.532	0.844
Maximal extrathyroidal extension	0.116	0.064
Lymphovascular invasion	0.107	0.129
Multiple level metastasis (≥2)	0.560	0.882
Ipsilateral central neck metastasis	0.035	0.038
No. of metastatic nodes in the ipsilateral central compartment (≥2)	0.031	0.017

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