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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Cytopathol. 2018 Feb 16;7(3):133–141. doi: 10.1016/j.jasc.2018.02.003

Table 2.

PD-L1 expression stratified by specimen type and clinically relevant tumor proportion score (TPS) cutoff values

PD-L1 TPS Overall (n=232) Cytology Cell-block Specimen (n=94) Surgical Pathology Specimen (n=138) p-value
<1% PD-L1 TPS 87 (37.5%) 35 (37.2%) 52 (37.7%) 0.4
1–49% PD-L1 TPS 55 (23.7%) 20 (21.3%) 35 (25.3%)
≥50% PD-L1 TPS 81 (34.9%) 33 (35.1%) 48 (34.8%)
Failed analysis 9 (3.9%) 6 (6.4%) 3 (2.2%)

P-value via Fisher’s exact test.