Table 2.

Comparison between cases reported as PLGA and LGPA

	PLGA	LGPA	Pa
Number of patients	289	40
Local recurrence	46 (15.9%)	18 (45%)	0.0001
Cervical node metastasis	12 (4.1%)	14 (35%)	0.0001
Distant metastasis	7 (2.4%)	2 (5%)	0.083
Death from tumor	1 (0.3%)	2 (5%)	NS

^aFisher’s exact test. (Mitchell et al. [21]; Colmenero et al. [8]; Tanaka et al. [29]; Thomas et al. [30]; Perez-Ordonez et al. [20]; Castle et al. [12]; Hannen et al. [31]; Evans et al. [7]; Lee et al. [28])