Table 1.

Relationship between immune cell-specific markers

	CD1a	CD68	CD163	CD3	CD56
CD1a
R		0.094	0.082	0.081	0.217a
p		0.231	0.294	0.294	0.007
n		164	165	171	155
CD68
R	0.094		0.266b	0.217a	0.174a
p	0.231		0.001	0.050	0.033
n	164		161	164	150
CD163
R	0.082	0.266b		0.366b	0.080
p	0.294	0.001		<0.001	0.329
n	165	161		165	151
MARCO
R	0.081	0.274b	0.074	0.092	−0.038
p	0.298	0.001	0.346	0.234	0.298
n	166	164	164	170	170

R Spearman’s correlation coefficient, p p value, n number of cases available for analysis

^aSignificance at the 5% level

^bSignificance at the 1% level