Table 1.
Association between maspin expression and clinicopathological variables in 108 soft tissue sarcomas
| Maspin expression | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Charactaristics | Positive | Negative | P -value |
| 52 cases | 56 cases | ||
| Age | |||
| < 60 years | 21 | 32 | 0.061 |
| ≥ 60 years | 31 | 24 | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 33 | 32 | 0.318 |
| Female | 19 | 24 | |
| Tumor size | |||
| < 5 cm | 15 | 14 | 0.407 |
| ≥ 5 cm | 37 | 42 | |
| Tumor localization | |||
| Extremity | 44 | 44 | 0.097 |
| Trunk | 6 | 12 | |
| Others | 2 | 0 | |
| Distant metastasis | |||
| Absent | 26 | 45 | 0.001 |
| Present | 26 | 11 | |
| FNCLCC grade | |||
| 1 | 8 | 20 | 0.002 |
| 2 | 22 | 26 | |
| 3 | 22 | 10 | |
| Ki-67 labelling index | |||
| < 10% | 32 | 43 | 0.065 |
| ≥ 10% | 20 | 13 | |