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. 2010 Mar;24(2):124–131. doi: 10.1016/S1674-8301(10)60020-6

Table 1. Relationships between the pathological grade and the glioma MMPs expression, EI and EP values and the maximum tumor diameter.

Low grading glioma (n = 20) High grading gliomas (n = 11) t p
MMP-2(%) 16.38 ± 8.43 60.47 ± 21.45 8.200 < 0.05
MMP-9(%) 12.09 ± 7.98 41.03 ± 14.00 6.312 < 0.05
EI 1.21 ± 0.67 6.67 ± 5.55 4.405 < 0.05
EP 4.66 ± 4.61 33.86 ± 20.08 6.286 < 0.05
Maximum diameter (mm) 34.02 ± 10.51 53.19 ± 9.97 5.026 < 0.05