Table 4.
EL expression and clinicopathological factors in gastric cancer tissues
| Clinicopathological | n |
EL |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | |||
| Gender |
|
|
|
|
| Male |
6 |
2 |
4 |
0.56 |
| Female |
6 |
3 |
3 |
|
| Age (year) |
|
|
|
|
| ≤50 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0.74 |
| >50 |
9 |
4 |
5 |
|
| Lauren classification |
|
|
|
|
| Intestinal |
5 |
3 |
2 |
0.28 |
| Diffuse |
7 |
2 |
5 |
|
| Histological type |
|
|
|
|
| Highly differentiated |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0.36 |
| Moderately differentiated |
4 |
2 |
2 |
|
| Poorly differentiated |
7 |
2 |
5 |
|
| Tumor stages |
|
|
|
|
| I and II |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0.79 |
| III and IV |
10 |
4 |
6 |
|
| Depth of invasion |
|
|
|
|
| T1 and T2 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
0.92 |
| T3 and T4 |
7 |
3 |
4 |
|
| Lymph node metastasis |
|
|
|
|
| Positive |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0.74 |
| Negative | 9 | 4 | 5 | |