Table 5.

Multivariate analysis of the association between clinicopathological features and lateral LNM.

Features	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval		P value
		Lower bound	Upper bound
Gender (female)	1.677	0.991	2.840	0.054
Age at diagnosis (<45 y)	2.625	1.582	4.356	<0.001
Multifocality (+)	1.240	0.652	2.361	0.512
Bilaterality (+)	2.343	1.180	4.653	0.015
Extrathyroidal invasion (+)	2.323	1.304	4.136	0.004
Tumor size (>1 cm)	4.821	2.997	7.755	<0.001
BRAFV600E mutation (+)	1.175	0.722	1.911	0.516