Table 5.
Epithelial and stromal TWIST1 and MYC expressions in the eutopic and ectopic endometrium of the same patient
| Ectopic TWIST1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | neg | pos | p-value | ||||
| Eutopic Epithelial TWIST1 | neg | 42 | 15 | (35.7 %) | 27 | (64.3 %) | <0.001 |
| pos | 5 | 3 | (60.0 %) | 2 | (40.0 %) | ||
| Eutopic Stromal TWIST1 | neg | 19 | 10 | (52.6 %) | 9 | (47.4 %) | 0.664 |
| pos | 28 | 12 | (42.9 %) | 16 | (57.1 %) | ||
| Ectopic MYC | |||||||
| total | neg | pos | p-value | ||||
| Eutopic Epithelial MYC | neg | 14 | 7 | (50,0 %) | 7 | (50,0 %) | 0.180 |
| pos | 15 | 2 | (13.3 %) | 13 | (86.7 %) | ||
| Eutopic Stromal MYC | neg | 15 | 14 | (93.3 %) | 1 | (6.7 %) | 0.006 |
| pos | 14 | 11 | (78.6 %) | 3 | (21.4 %) | ||
Numbers of patients in each of the indicated subgroups are shown. Numbers in parentheses indicate the fraction of patients (%) in each row in ectopic endometriotic lesions negative and positive for TWIST or MYC. All p-values of subgroup comparisons were analyzed by the McNemar Test