Table 1.

The relationship between patients’ clinicopathological characteristics and MALAT1 expression level

Clinicopathological characteristics	MALAT1 expression (mean ± SD)	t-value	P-value
Gender		−0.76	0.46
Male (n=13)	2.62±0.26
Female (n=10)	2.71±0.31
Age		2.74	0.01*
<10 years (n=18)	2.94±0.41
>10 years (n=5)	2.39±0.34
Lymph node metastasis		2.53	0.02*
Positive (n=6)	2.86±0.35
Negative (n=17)	2.51±0.27
Tumor size		−2.45	0.02*
<2 cm3 (n=15)	2.31±0.46
>2 cm3 (n=8)	2.77±0.36
Infiltration		2.30	0.03*
Positive (n=7)	2.65±0.40
Negative (n=16)	2.29±0.32
Differentiation		2.526	0.021*
Low-medium (n=12)	2.72±0.45
High (n=9)	2.25±0.38

Note:

^*P<0.05.