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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2011 Dec 14;79(2):361–364. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.04.050

Table 2.

Univariate and multivariate features predictive of higher lymph node counts in 255 patients treated with primary RPLND

Univariate Multivariate
Feature Coefficient (95% CI) p-value Coefficient (95% CI) p-value
Year of Surgery 3.0 (2.2 – 3.8) <0.001 2.9 (2.0 – 3.7) <0.001
Surgeon (High vs Low Volume) 15.0 (7.0 – 23.0) <0.001 7.6 (0.1 – 15.1) 0.047
Pathologic stage (pN+ vs pN0) 6.4 (0.7 – 12.1) 0.027 6.2 (1.1 – 11.2) 0.017
BMI 0.7 (0.1 – 1.2) 0.026 0.7 (0.2 – 1.2) 0.009