The stratification of patient risk depending on the size and ratio of metastatic lymph nodes in papillary thyroid carcinoma

Table 2 Multivariate analysis of clinicopathological characteristics on the size of mLN

Characteristics	Odds ratio	95% CI	p
Primary tumor size (cm) (≤1 cm versus >1 cm)	0.790	0.466 to 1.341	0.383
ETE (minimally versus grossly)	2.375	1.114 to 5.061	0.025
mLN ratio (≤0.5 versus >0.5)	2.748	1.400 to 5.395	0.003

Abbreviations: LN lymph node, ETE extrathyroidal extension, LN ratio, metastatic LNs/ harvested LNs

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