A multi-institutional study of association of sonographic characteristics with cervical lymph node metastasis in unifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common pathological type of thyroid carcinoma, and is prone to cervical lymph node metastases (CLNM). We aim to evaluate the association between sonographic characteristics of PTC and CLNM before the initial surgery.

Methods

Clinical information as well as ultrasonographic measurements and characteristics for 2376 patients from three hospitals were acquired in this retrospective cohort study. Univariate and multivariate logistic analysis were performed to predict CLNM in unifocal PTC patients. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was created to evaluate diagnostic performance.

Results

Univariate analysis showed that gender, age, maximum tumor diameter and volume, cross-sectional and longitudinal aspect r

SUBMITTER: Zhou L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9539830 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature