Completion thyroidectomy: predicting bilateral disease

Table 4 Binary logistsic regression of candidate predictors of bilateral disease in papillary and micropapillary cancer subset

N = 87^a	Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval	p Value
Age ≥ 45	0.48	0.18–1.28	0.14
Female Gender	0.62	0.19–2.05	0.43
Histology	1.95	0.29–13.3	0.49
Size	0.91	0.50–1.65	0.75
Lympho vascular invasion	1.78	0.37–8.64	0.46
Lymph node involvement	0.80	0.23–2.75	0.72
Extra thyroidal extension	1.08	0.29–3.94	0.91
Tumor capsular involvement	1.01	0.56–1.84	0.97
Multifocality	3.59	1.36–9.48	0.01

R square = 0.155
^a2 patients could not be included in this analysis as extra thyroidal extension could not be assessed on the pathology specimen

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