World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Table 4 Risk factors of central lymph node metastasis according to age groups in patients without extrathyroidal extension

From: Impact of tumor size on subclinical central lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma depends on age

	Group I (age < 45 years)			Group II (age ≥ 45 years)
	Odd ratio	P value	95% CI	Odd ratio	P value	95% CI
Size > 0.5 cm	1.420	0.485	0.53 to 3.80	6.875	0.002	1.99 to 23.78
Multifocality	2.731	0.057	0.97 to 7.68	2.052	0.097	0.88 to 4.79
Sex (male)	0.282	0.553	0.32 to 3.72	0.223	0.082	0.02 to 1.38
Thyroiditis	0.497	0.380	0.10 to 2.37	1.694	0.282	0.65 to 4.43
TSH	0.900	0.582	0.62 to 1.31	0.945	0.678	0.73 to 1.23

TSH, thyroid stimulating hormone; CI, confidence interval.

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