Application and validation of the machine learning-based multimodal radiomics model for preoperative prediction of lateral lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

In contrast to recent studies showing sex and age as significant predictors of lymph node metastasis in PTC ( 22 ), these traditional demographic factors did not reach statistical significance in our LLNM prediction model, highlighting the distinct predictive patterns for lateral versus central lymph node metastasis.

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