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Table 1 The correlation of tumor size with clinicopathologic characteristics of 943 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma between 2014 and 2016

From: Predicting factors of central lymph node metastasis and BRAFV600E mutation in Chinese population with papillary thyroid carcinoma

Variable

Overall PTC (n = 943)

PTC > 10 mm (n = 373)

PTMC (n = 570)

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

P

P

OR(95CI)

Gender

 Male

233

(25)

107

(29)

126

(22)

0.02

0.899

0.98(0.70–1.38)

 Female

710

(75)

266

(71)

444

(78)

Age (years) *

(45.9 ± 11.3)

(45.4 ± 12.0)

(46.3 ± 10.8)

0.265

  

Focality

 Uni

588

(73)

259

(69)

429

(75)

0.05

0.178

1.25(0.90–1.73)

 Multi

255

(27)

114

(31)

141

(25)

HT

 Yes

X50

(5)

15

(4)

35

(6)

0.159

  

 No

893

(95)

358

(96)

535

(94)

CLNM

 Yes

505

(53)

275

(74)

230

(40)

< 0.001

<0.001

4.10(3.04–5.53)

 No

438

(47)

98

(26)

340

(60)

TNM staging

 I

856

(91)

320

(86)

536

(94)

< 0.001

0.554

1.19(0.66–2.15)

 II

87

(9)

53

(14)

34

(6)

BRAFV600E mutation

 Yes

806

(85)

311

(83)

495

(87)

0.141

  

 No

137

(15)

62

(17)

75

(13)

  1. Abbreviations: PTC papillary thyroid carcinoma, PTMC papillary thyroid microcarcinoma, HT Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, CLNM central lymph node metastasis
  2. *Numbers are presented as means ± standard deviation