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Table 7 Multivariate analysis of five-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

0.716

0.143

3.594

0.685

UICC

   

0.020

-IIa vs. I

5.483

0.796

37.788

0.084

-IIb vs. I

8.575

0.850

86.488

0.068

-III vs. I

12.133

1.626

90.526

0.015

-IV vs. I

28.124

2.773

285.211

0.005

  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.