Table 1.
Correlation between the LINC00662 expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of osteosarcoma patients.
| Characteristics | Cases | LINC00662 expression | P value | |
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| High n = 26 | Low n = 25 | |||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 30 | 17 | 13 | 0.332 |
| Female | 21 | 9 | 12 | |
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| Age | ||||
| ≤60 | 25 | 12 | 13 | 0.676 |
| >60 | 26 | 14 | 12 | |
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| Morphological type | ||||
| Classic central OS | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0.829 |
| Intraosseous well-differentiated OS | 9 | 5 | 4 | |
| Parosteal juxtacortical OS | 13 | 6 | 7 | |
| Periosteal OS | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| High-grade surface OS | 10 | 5 | 5 | |
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| Anatomic location | ||||
| Tibia/femur | 39 | 21 | 18 | 0.342 |
| Elsewhere | 12 | 5 | 7 | |
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| Distant metastasis | ||||
| Yes | 31 | 22 | 9 | 0.000 |
| No | 20 | 4 | 16 | |
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| TNM stage | ||||
| I + II | 27 | 7 | 20 | 0.000 |
| III + IV | 24 | 19 | 5 | |
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| Tumor size (cm) | ||||
| ≤5 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0.007 |
| >5 | 32 | 21 | 11 | |
P < 0.05 is considered statistically significant (Chi-squared test).