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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Pathobiology. 2022 Jun 1;90(2):114–122. doi: 10.1159/000524668

Table 2.

Frequency of tumors with inflammatory cells adjacent to or distant from biopsy needle tract

Inflammatory cell Site N Proportion, % 95% Cl p value

Neutrophil AN 17 23.3 14.2–34.7
DN 2 2.7 0.3–9.6 0.001*
AN + DN 0 0 0–4.9
Proportion difference 20.5 95–32.6

Eosinophil AN 32 43.8 32.2–56.0
DN 14 19.2 10.9–30.1 0.002*
AN + DN 8 11.0 4.9–20.5
Proportion difference 24.7 95–38.3

Macrophage AN 54 74.0 62.4–83.6
DN 35 48.0 36.1–60.0 0.001*
AN + DN 31 42.5 31.0–54.9
Proportion difference 26.0 13.0–39.0

Plasma cell AN 35 48.0 36.1–60.0
DN 39 53.4 41.4–65.2 0.607
AN + DN 20 27.4 17.6–39.1
Proportion difference −5.4 −22.6 to 10.9

Lymphocyte AN 65 89.0 80–95.2
DN 65 89.0 80–95.2 1
AN + DN 59 80.8 70–89.1
Proportion difference 0 −10.9 to 10.9

AN, adjacent to the needle tract; DN, distant from the needle tract; AN+DN, present in both. Asterisk indicates statistical significance, p < 0.05.