Table 2.

Potential predictors for Liver metastasis in patients with midgut neuroendocrine tumor

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	OR	95% CI	P value	OR	95% CI	P value
Female sex	0.34	0.17–0.71	0.004*	0.21	0.07–0.61	0.004*
Age (years)	3.03	0.48–18.92	0.392	1.00	0.95–1.04	0.852
pT3	2.10	0.78–5.68	0.143	1.26	0.27–5.86	0.767
pT4	1.65	0.56–4.83	0.363	0.57	0.10–3.19	0.526
LN metastasis	1.8	0.71–4.54	0.213	0.81	0.20–3.26	0.767
MTD	9.58	3.97–23.13	<0.001*	16.68	4.66–59.73	<0.001*
Histologic grade	1.28	0.50–3.32	0.770	1.51	0.46–4.90	0.495

Abbreviations: OR, odd ratio; CI, confidence interval; LN, lymph node; MTD, mesenteric tumor deposits.

^*p<0.05.

Note: Age was entered as a continuous variable; pT3 and pT4 tumors were compared to combined pT1 and pT2 tumors; WHO grade 1 was the reference for histologic grade.