Table IV.
Clinicopathological characteristics of the patients with colorectal cancer and E-cadherin, vimentin expression in the colorectal cancer tissues.
| Pathologic feature | n | E-cadherin
|
Vimentin
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| − | + | P-value | − | + | P-value | ||
| Infiltration depth | |||||||
| Mucosa and superficial muscular layer | 21 | 3 | 18 | 0.018 | 16 | 5 | 0.013 |
| Deep muscular layer and below | 93 | 39 | 54 | 43 | 50 | ||
| TNM staging | |||||||
| I/II stage | 63 | 15 | 48 | 0.001 | 40 | 23 | 0.005 |
| III/IV stage | 51 | 27 | 24 | 19 | 32 | ||
| Lymphatic metastasis | |||||||
| − | 68 | 16 | 52 | 0.001 | 41 | 27 | 0.027 |
| + | 46 | 26 | 20 | 18 | 28 | ||
| Distant metastasis | |||||||
| − | 93 | 30 | 63 | 0.033 | 55 | 38 | 0.001 |
| + | 21 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 17 | ||
TNM, tumor, node and metastasis.