Table 2 Relationships between mucin expression and clinicopathologic factors in patients with gallbladder carcinoma
From: Prognostic significance of muc4 expression in gallbladder carcinoma
MUC1 | MUC2 | MUC4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number (%) | P-value | Number (%) | P-value | Number (%) | P-value | |
Gender | ||||||
Male (n = 17) | 13 (77) | 0.7191 | 2 (12) | 0.1161 | 10 (59) | 0.7512 |
Female (n = 46) | 38 (83) | 16 (35) | 25 (54) | |||
Age, years | ||||||
< 65 (n = 26) | 20 (77) | 0.5301 | 7 (27) | 0.8082 | 13 (50) | 0.4572 |
≥ 65 (n = 26) | 31 (84) | 11 (30) | 22 (60) | |||
Differentiation | ||||||
Well (n = 25) | 19 (76) | 0.5171 | 5 (20) | 0.2222 | 11 (44) | 0.1342 |
Moderate/poor (n = 38) | 32 (84) | 13 (34) | 24 (63) | |||
Lymph node metastasis | ||||||
Negative (n = 28) | 22 (79) | 1.0001 | 11 (39) | 0.1282 | 13 (46) | 0.4202 |
Positive (n = 17) | 14 (82) | 3 (18) | 10 (59) | |||
Depth of invasion | ||||||
T1/T2 (n = 34) | 27 (79) | 0.7362 | 10 (29) | 0.8732 | 18 (53) | 0.6512 |
T3/T4 (n = 29) | 24 (83) | 8 (28) | 17 (59) | |||