Table III.

Multivariate Analysis for Factors of Recurrence of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma With Lymph Node Metastases at Diagnosis

	Coefficient	Standard error	Standard coefficient	P‐value
Intercept	0.6234	0.1558	0.6234	0.0001
Age at diagnosis (year)	0.0060	0.0029	0.1925	0.0443
Sex (female/male)	0.2134	0.1008	0.1928	0.0366
Tumor size (cm)	0.0632	0.0283	0.2134	0.0275
Postoperative 1 month Tg* (ng/ml)	0.0003	0.0002	0.1286	0.1638

Tg*, serum thyroglobulin.