Table 2.
Analysis of clinicopathological features in AYA and control patients with oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma.
| Stage I / II | Stage III / IV | ||||||||||||
| Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||||||||||
| Variables | AYA group (n = 89) | Control group (n = 154) | P value | P value | OR | 95% CI | AYA group (n = 12) | Control group (n = 21) | P value | P value | OR | 95% CI | |
| Clinical type | Superficial type | 56 | 83 | .042 | .327 | 0.835 | 0.582 to 1.198 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | .922 | 0.926 | 0.199 to 4.310 |
| Exophytic type | 8 | 32 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| Endophytic type | 25 | 35 | 9 | 16 | |||||||||
| Unknown | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tumor differentiation | Well | 62 | 105 | .903 | .818 | 0.948 | 0.601 to 1.495 | 7 | 9 | .722 | .470 | 0.650 | 0.202 to 2.093 |
| Moderate | 18 | 32 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
| Poor | 8 | 11 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| Unknown | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Perineural invasion | No | 80 | 143 | .331 | .529 | 1.395 | 0.495 to 3.933 | 9 | 13 | .703 | .616 | 0.590 | 0.075 to 4.642 |
| Yes | 9 | 10 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
| Unknown | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Lymphatic invasion | No | 77 | 140 | .184 | .362 | 1.551 | 0.604 to 3.983 | 7 | 14 | .716 | .555 | 1.682 | 0.299 to 9.451 |
| Yes | 12 | 12 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||
| Unknown | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Vascular invasion | No | 68 | 128 | .170 | .292 | 1.518 | 0.699 to 3.297 | 5 | 7 | .716 | .961 | 0.955 | 0.152 to 5.985 |
| Yes | 21 | 24 | 7 | 14 | |||||||||
| Unknown | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||