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Table 1 Patient demographics and baseline characteristics

From: A prediction model for identifying high-risk lymph node metastasis in clinical low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

Characteristic

Overall,

N = 7,3441

Training Cohort,

N = 5,1411

Internal Test Cohort,

N = 2,2031

P-value2

Sex

0.633

 female

5,617 (76%)

3,940 (77%)

1,677 (76%)

 

 male

1,727 (24%)

1,201 (23%)

526 (24%)

 

Age

0.623

 Mean (SD)

44 (10)

44 (10)

44 (10)

 

Tumor size

0.477

 Mean (SD)

0.64 (0.21)

0.64 (0.20)

0.63 (0.21)

 

Tumor location

0.069

 upper

1,019 (14%)

706 (14%)

313 (14%)

 

 middle

2,340 (32%)

1,617 (31%)

723 (33%)

 

 lower

1,090 (15%)

742 (14%)

348 (16%)

 

 multifocal

2,895 (39%)

2,076 (40%)

819 (37%)

 

HT

0.502

 present

1,756 (24%)

1,218 (24%)

538 (24%)

 

 absent

5,588 (76%)

3,923 (76%)

1,665 (76%)

 

Microscopic capsular invasion

0.822

 absent

3,889 (53%)

2,718 (53%)

1,171 (53%)

 

 present

3,455 (47%)

2,423 (47%)

1,032 (47%)

 

Bilaterality

0.619

 absent

5,633 (77%)

3,935 (77%)

1,698 (77%)

 

 present

1,711 (23%)

1,206 (23%)

505 (23%)

 
  1. 1n (%)
  2. 2Pearson’s Chi-squared test; Welch Two Sample t-test