Table 2. Correlation between immune cells and clinicopathological features.
| CD4+ TILs | CD8+TILs | NKCs | DCs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Total (n=45) | Low/high | Pa | Low/high | Pa | Low/high | Pa | Low/high | Pa |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| <69 | 22 | 14/8 | 0.0529 | 17/5 | 0.0417 | 16/6 | 0.3990 | 13/9 | 0.2949 |
| ⩾69 | 23 | 8/15 | 11/12 | 14/9 | 10/13 | ||||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 17 | 7/10 | 0.4200 | 10/7 | 0.7141 | 14/3 | 0.0820 | 8/9 | 0.6718 |
| Female | 28 | 15/13 | 18/10 | 16/12 | 15/13 | ||||
| Vessel involvement | |||||||||
| − | 28 | 10/18 | 0.0233 | 14/14 | 0.0300 | 19/9 | 0.8279 | 12/16 | 0.1552 |
| + | 17 | 12/5 | 14/3 | 11/6 | 11/6 | ||||
| Lymphatic involvement | |||||||||
| − | 23 | 13/10 | 0.4578 | 12/11 | 0.1552 | 15/8 | 0.8330 | 12/11 | 0.8841 |
| + | 22 | 12/10 | 16/6 | 15/7 | 11/11 | ||||
| Perineural involvement | |||||||||
| − | 28 | 11/17 | 0.0981 | 14/14 | 0.0300 | 19/9 | 0.8279 | 12/16 | 0.1552 |
| + | 17 | 11/6 | 14/3 | 11/6 | 11/6 | ||||
a
χ2 test. TILs=tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes; NKCs=natural killer cells; DCs=dendritic cells. The underlined numbers=significant.