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Table 5 Hazard ratios by Cox proportional hazards model for predicting the risk of distant metastasis in WDTC in DM and NDM patients (n = 568)

From: Patient and tumor factors contributing to distant metastasis in well-differentiated thyroid cancer: a retrospective cohort study

Variable

HR

Lower CI

Upper CI

p-value

Age

1.023

0.993

1.055

0.131

Sex

1.503

0.607

3.722

0.378

Follicular

7.068

1.869

26.731

0.004†

Hurthle

1.945

0.416

9.086

0.398

Size

1.370

1.135

1.655

0.001†

Focality

1.850

0.764

4.482

0.173

Positive Margins

0.974

0.374

2.540

0.957

LVI

2.488

0.719

8.613

0.15

Nodal Metastasis

3.806

1.285

11.270

0.016*

ETE

0.883

0.311

2.502

0.815

  1. LVI Lymphovascular invasion, ETE Extrathyroidal extension, CI Confidence interval
  2. *p < 0.05
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Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

ISSN: 1916-0216

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