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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2015 Mar 24;196(2):229–234. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.03.051

Table 3.

Univariate and multivariate survival analyses of patients with appendiceal goblet cell carcinomatosis after cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy.

Characteristic Univariate analysis
Multivariate analysis
OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P
  Age, 5-y intervals   1.0 (0.8–1.3) 0.88
  Sex   0.5 (0.2–1.4) 0.17
  Race   0.3 (0.0–2.6) 0.26
  Body mass index   0.6 (0.4–1.1) 0.12
  ECOG performance status 34.6 (0.9–1410.6) 0.06   1.7 (0.7–3.9) 0.21
  Preoperative albumin   0.1 (0.0–5.0) 0.28
  Preoperative chemotherapy   2.5 (0.7–9.0) 0.15
  Postoperative chemotherapy   1.9 (0.2–17.6) 0.56
  HIPEC agent (oxaliplatin versus mitomycin C)   1.4 (0.5–4.5) 0.54
  No. of organs resected   3.5 (0.5–23.5) 0.20
  Peritoneal carcinomatosis index   0.1 (0.0–6.4) 0.32
  Positive lymph nodes 13.7 (1.8–107.9) 0.01 10.8 (1.3–88.8) 0.02
  Incomplete resection (versus complete resection)   1.5 (0.5–4.2) 0.48
  Length of operation   0.8 (0.3–2.3) 0.66

CI = confidence interval; HIPEC = hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy; OR = odds ratio.