Table 1.

Correlation between BNIP3 expression and clinicopathological features of 84 UM patients.

Characteristics	Number	BNIP3 expression		p valuea
		High	Low
Age (years)
<50	39	15	24	0.353
≥50	45	13	32
Gender
Male	33	9	24	0.343
Female	51	19	32
Histological typeb
Spindle	41	11	30	0.189
Epitheloid and Mixed	42	17	25
Tumor size (mm)
<15	59	19	40	0.736
≥15	25	9	16
Distant metastasis
Present	31	17	14	0.001***
Absent	53	11	42
Status
Alive	58	15	43	0.030*
Dead	26	13	13

^aPearson chi-squared test; ^b, cell type was not determined in one sample due to a high degree of cell dedifferentiation and necrosis. Tumor size was defined as the largest basal diameter.