From: Risk factors for venous port migration in a single institute in Taiwan
Migration group | Non-migration group | P value | |||
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n | % | n | % | ||
Patient number | 7 | 291 | |||
Age | 0.1181 | ||||
mean ± SD | 68.1 ± 10.7 | 61.2 ± 12.4 | |||
median (inter-quartile range) | 71 (62 to 74) | 61 (54 to 70.3) | |||
Gender | 0.0060 | ||||
Female | 0 | 0.0% | 153 | 52.6% | |
Male | 7 | 100.0% | 138 | 47.4% | |
Body mass index | 0.3211 | ||||
mean ± standard deviation | 24.9 ± 1.8 | 24.2 ± 6.9 | |||
medium (inter-quartile range) | 24.7 (23.3 to 26.9) | 23.6 (21 to 26.4) | |||
Venous port type | 0.0006 | ||||
Bard Fr 6.6 | 7 | 100.0% | 97 | 33.3% | |
TYCO Fr 7.5 | 0 | 0.0% | 194 | 66.7% | |
Side | 0.4338 | ||||
Left | 1 | 14.3% | 96 | 33.0% | |
Right | 6 | 85.7% | 195 | 67.0% | |
Entering vessel | 0.6025 | ||||
Cephalic vein | 7 | 100.0% | 254 | 87.3% | |
Subclavian vein | 0 | 0.0% | 37 | 12.7% | |
Malignancy (indication for the port) | |||||
Head and neck tumor | 0 | 0.0% | 17 | 5.8% | |
Lung cancer | 5 | 71.4% | 54 | 18.6% | |
Esophageal cancer | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 0.7% | |
Breast cancer | 0 | 0.0% | 55 | 18.9% | |
Gastric cancer | 1 | 14.3% | 13 | 4.5% | |
Colorectal cancer | 0 | 0.0% | 64 | 22.0% | |
Hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumor | 0 | 0.0% | 8 | 2.7% | |
Ovary cancer and cervical cancer | 0 | 0.0% | 26 | 8.9% | |
Urological cancer | 0 | 0.0% | 37 | 12.7% | |
Leukemia and lymphoma | 1 | 14.3% | 10 | 3.4% | |
Other malignancy | 0 | 0.0% | 3 | 1.0% | |
Malnutrition, no malignancy | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 0.7% | |
Lung cancer | 0.0040 | ||||
Yes | 5 | 71.4% | 54 | 18.6% | |
No | 2 | 28.6% | 237 | 81.4% |