Table III.
Association between L1 expression and the clinical pathological features in gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients.
| Positive expression of L1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | Cases, n | Cases, n | Percentage | χ2 | P-value |
| Gender | 0.405 | >0.05 | |||
| Male | 36 | 22 | 61.1 | ||
| Female | 30 | 16 | 53.3 | ||
| Age, years | 3.753 | >0.05 | |||
| <55 | 22 | 9 | 40.9 | ||
| ≥55 | 44 | 29 | 65.9 | ||
| Location | 1.972 | >0.05 | |||
| Esophagusa | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Stomach | 27 | 15 | 55.6 | ||
| Small intestine | 16 | 12 | 75.0 | ||
| Large intestine | 7 | 4 | 57.1 | ||
| Parenteral | 15 | 7 | 46.7 | ||
| Histological type | 0.020 | >0.05 | |||
| Spindle cell type | 49 | 28 | 57.1 | ||
| Epithelioid cell type | 5 | 3 | 60.0 | ||
| Mixed cell type | 12 | 7 | 58.3 | ||
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Results from the tumor found in the esophagus were pooled with the stomach group.