Table 1.
Shows the number of cholesteatoma slides, associating the complicated and non-complicated ones to gender, age, MMP2 immunohistochemical expression, with the corresponding rate of significance. - p: significance rate less than 0.05.
| Cholesteatoma | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Latent (n=11) | Invasive (n=8) | P | |
| Males | 5 (45,5%) | 4 (50%) | |
| Age (years) | 32,9 +-18,7 | 26,9 +-7,7 | |
| 26,0 (17-50) | 27,0 (19-34,3) | ||
| MMP2 expression | |||
| 0 ou + | 8 (72,7%) | 1 (12,5%) | # 0,015 |
| ++ ou +++ | 3 (27,3%) | 7 (87,5%) |
statistical test of significant Fisher.