Table 4. The relationship between preoperative histological diagnosis and clinical pathological characteristics of the stage III + IV patients in this group.
| Classification | No. | Purpose of histological diagnosis (%) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront surgery | Induction therapy | |||
| Masaoka stage | 0.000 | |||
| I | 7 | 0 (0) | 7 (12.1) | |
| II | 7 | 0 (0) | 7 (12.1) | |
| III | 93 | 60 (71.4) | 33 (56.9) | |
| IV | 35 | 24 (28.6) | 11 (19.0) | |
| R resection | 0.025 | |||
| R0 | 77 | 39 (46.2) | 38 (65.5) | |
| R1 + R2 | 65 | 45 (53.6) | 20 (34.5) | |
| Pathology | 0.095 | |||
| Thymoma | 73 | 47 (61.0) | 26 (46.4) | |
| Thymic carcinoma | 60 | 30 (39.0) | 30 (53.6) | |