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Table 1.

Correlation between Aurora-A mRNA level and patients clinicopathologic characteristics

Patients characteristics	Case number	Aurora-A mRNA level (mean)	SD	P value
Gender
Male	36	0.0910	0.0935	0.788
Female	1	0.1166
Age
≤64	23	0.1040	0.0905	0.305
≥65	14	0.0714	0.0950
Tumor site
Supraglottic	17	0.0853	0.0710	0.905
Glottic	13	0.1009	0.1082
Subglottic	7	0.0899	0.1182
T category
T1	6	0.0592	0.0485	0.582
T2	22	0.0983	0.0960
T3	8	0.1087	0.1094
T4	1	0.0035
Lymph node metastasis
N(−)	23	0.0607	0.0737	0.007^a
N(+)	14	0.1425	0.0997
Histologic grade
1	5	0.0669	0.0768	0.814
2	30	0.0961	0.0961
3	2	0.0872	0.1075
Clinical stage
I, II	19	0.0584	0.0739	0.022^a
III, IV	18	0.1268	0.0985

^aIndependent-samples t test