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Table 6 Multivariate analysis of three-year survival

From: Transhiatal and transthoracic resection in adenocarcinoma of the esophagus: Does the operative approach have an influence on the long-term prognosis?

  

95%-confidence interval

 

variable

odds ratio

lower limit

upper limit

p-value

surgical approach

    

TT vs. TH

1.931

0.573

6.514

0.289

UICC

   

0.001

-IIa vs. I

1.866

0.459

7.583

0.383

-IIb vs. I

20.350

2.132

194.254

0.009

-III vs. I

5.967

1.400

25.439

0.016

-IV vs. I

46.422

5.071

424.994

0.001

  1. Odds ratios are to be interpreted as odds for death so that they are interpretable in the same way as the hazard ratios in Table 5.