Clinical prediction models for cervical lymph node metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma

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PURPOSE: Accurate preoperative diagnosis of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains an unsolved problem. This study aimed to construct a nomogram and scoring system for predicting LNM based on the clinical characteristics of patients with PTC.

METHODS: 1400 patients with PTC who underwent thyroidectomy and lymph node dissection at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University were retrospectively enrolled and randomly divided into training and internal testing sets. Furthermore, 692 patients with PTC from three other medical centers were collected as external testing sets. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) was used to screen the predictors, and a nomogram was constructed. In addition, a scoring system was constructed using 10-fold cross-validation. The performances of the two models were verified among datasets and compared with preoperative ultrasound (US).

RESULTS: Six independent predictors were included in the multivariate logistic model: age, sex, US diagnosis of LNM, tumor diameter, location, and thyroid peroxidase antibody level. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) (95% confidence interval) of this nomogram in the training, internal testing, and three external testing sets were 0.816 (0.791-0.840), 0.782 (0.727-0.837), 0.759 (0.699-0.819), 0.749 (0.667-0.831), and 0.777 (0.726-0.828), respectively. The AUROC of the scoring system were 0.810 (0.785-0.835), 0.772 (0.718-0.826), 0.736 (0.675-0.798), 0.717 (0.635-0.799) and 0.756 (0.704-0.808), respectively. The prediction performances were both significantly superior to those of preoperative US (P < 0.001).

CONCLUSION: The nomogram and scoring system performed well in different datasets and significantly improved the preoperative prediction of LNM than US alone.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Endocrine - (2024) vom: 04. Jan.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luo, Shuli [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Fenghua [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Ruiming [VerfasserIn]
Li, Bin [VerfasserIn]
He, Yufei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wenke [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiayuan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xuyang [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Tianyi [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Yingtong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yihao [VerfasserIn]
Long, Jianyan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xinwen [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Lymph node metastasis
Nomogram
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Scoring system

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Date Revised 04.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1007/s12020-023-03632-z

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NLM36666011X