Skip metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma is difficult to predict in clinical practice

BMC Cancer

Table 5 Multivariate analysis results for 30 patients with skip metastasis (203 patients)

Predictive factor	p	OR	95% C.I. of OR
Predictive factor	p	OR	Lower	Upper
Size(>2 cm)	0.010*
Size(≤0.5 cm)	0.001*	12.937	3.000	55.801
Size(0.5-1 cm)	0.868	1.106	0.338	3.614
Size(1–1.5 cm)	0.731	1.232	0.375	4.046
Size(1.5-2 cm)	0.241	1.990	0.630	6.290

*symbol for p < 0.05; Only predictive factors from the multivariate logistic regression model; OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval

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