Analysis of the outcome of young age tongue squamous cell carcinoma

Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Table 4 Multivariate analysis of risk factors for distant metastasis

Distant metastasis	p value	Hazard ratio	95% CI
Age	0.046	9.687	1.042–90.081
T stage	0.196	2.279	0.654–7.942
N stage	0.420	13.276	0.025–7139.458
Node (n)	0.747	0.639	0.042–9.693
Lymphovascular invasion	0.379	2.525	0.321–19.851
Perinodal extension	0.274	3.490	0.372–32.739
Perineural invasion	0.629	1.628	0.226–11.719
I, II/III, IV stage	0.957	123.182	0.000–1.769
Grade	0.203	2.394	0.625–9.178
Smoker	0.686	0.608	0.055–6.774
Alcohol use	0.909	0.839	0.041–14.037