Clinical Study
To Identify Predictors of Central Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Clinically Node-Negative Conventional Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 1
Univariate analysis of the correlations between CLNM and clinicopathologic characteristics of cN0 CPTC.
| | | Central lymph node metastasis | value | | Negative (%) | Positive (%) |
| | Gender | | | 0.150 | | Male | 18 (29.5) | 43 (70.5) | | | Female | 52 (40.3) | 77 (59.7) | | | Age (Y) | | | 0.000 | | <45 | 33 (26.8) | 90 (73.2) | | | ≥45 | 37 (55.2) | 30 (44.8) | | | Ultrasonographic tumor size (cm) | | | 0.000 | | ≤2.0 cm | 51 (47.7) | 56 (52.3) | | | >2.0 cm | 19 (22.9) | 64 (77.1) | | | Ultrasonographic tumor size (cm) | | | 0.102 | | ≤1.5 cm | 24 (46.2) | 28 (54.8) | | | >1.5 cm | 46 (33.3) | 92 (66.7) | | | Bilaterality | | | 0.000 | | No | 61 (45.2) | 74 (54.8) | | | Yes | 9 (16.4) | 46 (83.6) | | | Multifocality | | | 0.001 | | No | 57 (44.9) | 70 (55.1) | | | Yes | 13 (20.6) | 50 (79.4) | | | Capsular invasion | | | 0.973 | | No | 48 (36.9) | 82 (63.1) | | | Yes | 22 (36.7) | 38 (63.3) | | | Extrathyroidal invasion | | | 0.616 | | No | 62 (36.3) | 109 (63.7) | | | Yes | 8 (42.1) | 11 (57.9) | | | Extent of lymphadenectomy | | | 0.062 | | Ipsilateral CND | 4 (80.0) | 1 (20.0) | | | Bilateral CND | 66 (35.7) | 119 (64.3) | |
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