Table 1.
Correlation of clinicopathologic characteristics and AP-2α protein expression in the papillary thyroid carcinoma patients
| Variables | Patients, n (N=62) | AP-2α expression
|
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low n (%) | High n (%) | |||
| Age (years) | 0.390 | |||
| <45 | 34 | 9 (26.5) | 25 (73.5) | |
| ≥45 | 28 | 4 (14.3) | 24 (85.7) | |
| Gender | 0.513 | |||
| Male | 17 | 5 (29.4) | 12 (70.6) | |
| Female | 45 | 8 (17.8) | 37 (82.2) | |
| Tumor size (T) | 0.218 | |||
| T1 | 15 | 1 (6.7) | 14 (93.3) | |
| T2 | 20 | 4 (20) | 16 (80) | |
| T3 | 20 | 7 (35) | 13 (65) | |
| T4 | 7 | 1 (14.3) | 6 (85.7) | |
| Histologic type | 0.026a | |||
| Classic follicular Warthin like | 47 | 13 (27.66) | 34 (72.34) | |
| Tall cell column cell diffuse sclerosing | 15 | 0 | 15 | |
| Lymph nodes metastasis | 0.465 | |||
| No | 35 | 9 (25.7) | 26 (74.3) | |
| Yes | 27 | 4 (14.8) | 23 (85.2) | |
| Distant metastasis | 1.000 | |||
| No | 61 | 13 (21.3) | 48 (78.7) | |
| Yes | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Notes:
a
P<0.05. Pearson’s chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact test.
Abbreviation: AP-2α, activator protein 2α