Table 2.
Histologic Features of the Study Population with regard to Nodal Disease (LNM)
| Parameter | LNM |
Significance (P Value) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | |||
| Ulceration | (.658) | |||
| No | n (%) | 46 (95.8) | 2 (4.2) | |
| Yes | n (%) | 38 (92.7) | 3 (7.3) | |
| TD | (.002)** | |||
| Mean | mm | 3.5 | 14.0 | |
| SD | mm | 2.9 | 6.0 | |
| 95% CI | mm | 2.9-4.2 | 6.6-21.4 | |
| Maximal vertical infiltration (MVI) | (.008)** | |||
| Superficial | n (%) | 29 (96.7) | 1 (3.3) | |
| Medium | n (%) | 38 (100.0) | (0.0) | |
| Deep | n (%) | 17 (81.0) | 4 (19.0) | |
| Vessel invasion (VI) | (.032)* | |||
| No | n (%) | 72 (97.3) | 2 (2.7) | |
| Yes | n (%) | 12 (75.0) | 3 (25.0) | |
| Muscle invasion (MI) | (.026)* | |||
| No | n (%) | 73 (97.3) | 2 (2.7) | |
| Yes | n (%) | 11 (78.6) | 3 (21.4) | |
| Bone infiltration (BI) | (.095) | |||
| No | n (%) | 76 (96.2) | 3 (3.8) | |
| Yes | n (%) | 8 (80.0) | 2 (20.0) | |
⁎⁎⁎P < .001.
⁎
P < .05.
⁎⁎
P < .01.