Table 4.

Numerical results of clinical correlations.

A) Correlation between MV and disease stage (% of MV with high expression; mean ± SD)	Stage I/II MM patients	Stage III MM patients	Statistics
CD203a/PC-1	31.5 ± 13.8	14.9 ± 15.7	p = 0.01
CD73	35.6 ± 12.1	17.7 ± 14.6	p = 0.01
B) Correlation between MV and % of PC in the BM (% of MV with high expression; mean ± SD)	<10 % of PC in the BM	>10 % of PC in the BM	Statistics
CD38	25.9 ± 14.3	44.5 ± 22.4	p = 0.03
CD157	16.7 ± 12.2	38.4 ± 19.5	p = 0.01
C) Correlation between MV and % of PC in the BM (% of MV with high expression; mean ± SD)	Correlation (r)		Significance (p)
CD38	0.47		0.03
CD157	0.37		0.05