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. 2010 Mar 16;456(4):387–393. doi: 10.1007/s00428-010-0895-7

Table 1.

Clinicopathologic variables and mtTFA expression

Variable mtTFA in mtTFA in
Endometrioid adenocarcinomas Nonendometroioid carcinomas
Positive Negative P value Positive Negative P value
n = 123 n = 122 n = 17 n = 14
Age 0.376 0.608
 <60 years 76 82 4 2
 ≥60 years 47 40 13 12
Stage 0.008 0.197
 I and II 85 102 13 7
 III and IV 38 20 4 7
Grade 0.050
 1 and 2 95 106
 3 28 16
Myometrial invasion <0.001 0.175
 ≥1/2 78 103 11 5
 >1/2 45 19 6 9
LVSI 0.006 0.953
 − 68 88 7 6
 + 55 34 10 8
Cervical invasion 0.015 0.983
 − 97 110 12 10
 + 26 12 5 4
Ovarian metastasis 0.542 0.856
 − 109 111 14 12
 + 14 11 3 2
Lymph node metastasisa 0.003 0.672
 − 87 100 8 7
 + 19 5 2 3
LI ofp53 expression 0.003 0.73
 <50% 98 113 2 1
≥ 50% 25 9 15 13

mtTFA mitochondrial transcription A, LVSI lymphovascular space invasion, LI labeling index

aThe retroperitoneal lymph node adenectomy or sampling was done in 211 endometrioid cases and 20 nonendometrioid cases