Preoperative Serum Calcitonin Level and Ultrasonographic Characteristics Predict the Risk of Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Functional Analysis of Calcitonin-Related Genes

Table 4

Model parameters for ultrasound combined with calcitonin to predict metastasis in medullary thyroid cancer.

Items	Regression coefficient	OR	OR (95% CI)	value
Infiltrating range	4.117	61.363	6.233~604.133	<0.001
Diameter (cm)	0.334	1.396	0.327~5.960	0.652
Calcification	3.666	39.077	2.544~600.229	0.009
Blood flow	1.833	6.255	0.817~47.896	0.078
Calcitonin	2.554	12.852	0.772~213.857	0.075
Intercept	−7.495	0.001	0.000~0.054	0.001