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Table 6 Hazard ratios by Cox proportional hazards model for all DM and NDM patients with PTC (n = 540) to predict the risk of distant metastasis

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

1.035

1.000

1.071

0.048*

Sex

1.382

0.518

3.684

0.518

Size

1.354

1.113

1.649

0.002*

Focality

3.032

1.120

8.206

0.029*

Positive Margins

1.068

0.373

3.056

0.903

LVI

1.748

0.465

6.575

0.409

Nodal Metastasis

4.761

1.457

15.553

0.01*

ETE

0.942

0.278

3.189

0.923

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

ISSN: 1916-0216

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