Diagnostic performance of Midkine ratios in fine-needle aspirates for evaluation of Cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules

Table 4 Correlation between MK ratios and clinicopathological features

Clinicopathology	MK		TG		MK/TG		FT4		MK/FT4		FT4/MK
Clinicopathology	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Number of nodules	−0.070	0.394	0.065	0.433	−0.116	0.158	0.062	0.451	−0.081	0.325	0.081	0.325
^aMTD	0.352	0.000*	−0.105	0.199	0.359	0.000*	−0.180	0.027*	0.374	0.000*	−0.374	0.000*
^bETE	0.105	0.170	−0.235	0.002*	0.278	0.000*	−0.215	0.004*	0.235	0.002*	−0.235	0.002*
T stage	0.221	0.003*	−0.164	0.031*	0.319	0.000*	−0.151	0.048*	0.303	0.000*	−0.303	0.000*
N stage	0.254	0.002*	0.027	0.742	0.166	0.042*	−0.046	0.578	0.193	0.018*	−0.193	0.018*

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