Table I.
Univariate analyses of the correlation between Sam68 expression and clinicopathological features in patients with OSCC.
| Sam68 expression | |||
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| Clinicopathological features | Low (n=39) | High (n=38) | P-value |
| Age, years | 0.56 | ||
| <65 | 25 | 16 | |
| >65 | 14 | 22 | |
| Sex | 0.05 | ||
| Male | 29 | 26 | |
| Female | 10 | 12 | |
| pT | 0.01a | ||
| T1 + T2 | 38 | 30 | |
| T3 + T4 | 1 | 8 | |
| Pathological differentiation | 0.51 | ||
| Well | 20 | 15 | |
| Moderate | 16 | 18 | |
| Poor | 3 | 5 | |
| YK classification | 0.43 | ||
| YK1 + YK2 + YK3 | 26 | 22 | |
| YK4C + YK4D | 13 | 16 | |
| Lymphovascular invasion | <0.01 | ||
| Negative | 25 | 13 | |
| Positive | 14 | 25 | |
| Perineural invasion | 0.19a | ||
| Negative | 36 | 31 | |
| Positive | 3 | 7 | |
| Pathological CLNM | <0.01 | ||
| Negative | 33 | 19 | |
| Positive | 6 | 19 | |
| Primary recurrence | 0.99a | ||
| Negative | 37 | 36 | |
| Positive | 2 | 2 | |
Pearson's chi-square test.
a
Fisher's exact test. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant in all analyses. OSCC, oral squamous cell carcinoma; CLNM, cervical lymph node metastasis; YK, Yamamoto-Kohama.