Prediction Model of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study is to develop a predictive model for the assessment of cervical lymph node metastasis risk in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).

Methods

A retrospective study was conducted on 212 patients with PTC who underwent initial surgical treatment from August 2022 to April 2023 in 2 hospitals. Data were randomly split into 7:3 training-validation sets. Logistic regression was used for feature selection and predictive model creation. Model performance was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and calibration curves. Clinical utility was determined using decision curves.

Results

Among the 212 patients with PTC, 104 cases (49.1%) exhibited cervical lymph node metastasis, while 108 cases (50.9%) did not. Multivariate logistic

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11497514 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature