BRAF Mutation Is Not an Independent Predictor of Central- Lymph- Node Metastases in the Classical Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer
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Statistical analysis included a bivariate analysis of the association between BRAF mutation status and patient and disease features, including age, sex, tumor size, lymph-node metastases, extrathyroidal extension, multifocality, lymphovascular invasion, involvement of surgical margins, and AJCC stage. Multivariate logistic-regression analyses of these features were conducted to examine which preoperative variables were independently associated with central-lymph-node metastases.
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