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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 24.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2009 Aug;146(2):250–257. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.02.023

Table III.

Associations between classification of invasion depth and clinicopathologic variables

No. (%)
Factor <5 mm 5–12 mm >12 mm P value
Nodal metastasis 3 (3.2) 41 (44.1) 49 (52.7) <.0001
Perineural invasion 5 (5.1) 50 (51.0) 43 (43.9) .02
Vascular invasion 1 (2.6) 17 (44.7) 20 (52.6) .07
Pancreas invasion 4 (3.1) 69 (53.9) 55 (42.7) <.0001