Table 3.

Relation between aminopeptidase N (APN) and SPARC immunoexpression in meningiomas. Abbreviation: WHO = World Health Organization.

Case number	WHO grade	APN expression	SPARC expression
1	I	+++	+
2	I	+++	+
3	I	++	+
4	I	+++	++
5	I	+++	+
6	III	−	++
7	III	−	+++
8	III	−	++
9	III	+	+++
10	III	+	+++

−, no expression; +, weak patchy expression; ++, strong focal expression; +++, strong expression in more than 50% of tumor tissue.