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Table 3 Odds ratios of candidate predictors of bilateral disease following binary logistic regression in well differentiated cancers

From: Completion thyroidectomy: predicting bilateral disease

N = 93a

Odds ratio

95 % confidence interval

p Value

Age ≥ 45

0.59

0.24–1.46

0.26

Female gender

0.76

0.25–2.30

0.63

Histology

0.63

0.26–1.54

0.31

Size

0.78

0.48–1.25

0.30

Lympho vascular invasion

1.49

0.33–6.65

0.60

Lymph node involvement

1

0.30–3.26

0.99

Extra thyroidal extension

1.06

0.30–3.73

0.93

Encapsulated tumor

0.90

0.52–1.56

0.69

Multifocality

2.74

1.11–6.79

0.03

  1. R square = 0.111
  2. a2 patients could not be included in this analysis as extra thyroidal extension could not be assessed on the pathology specimen