Significance of SUV Max for Predicting Occult Lymph Node Metastasis and Prognosis in Early-Stage Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Table 2

Multilogistic regression of the association between clinical pathologic variables and occult lymph node metastasis in cT1-2N0 tongue squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Clinical pathologic variables	Multilogistic regression
		OR	95% CI
SUV max	0.043	2.879	1.264–5.997
Pathologic tumor stage	0.007	4.658	2.667–9.678
Tumor differentiation
Well
Moderate	0.016	3.699	1.876–8.338
Poor	<0.001	6.668	2.447–20.665