From: How useful is the assessment of lymphatic vascular density in oral carcinoma prognosis?
Peritumoral LVD* | Intratumoral LVD¥ | Peritumoral BVD* | Intratumoral BVD* | |||||||||
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n | Median | p | n | Mean | p | n | Median | p | n | Median | p | |
Age | 1.000 | 0.569 | 0.590 | 0.266 | ||||||||
Gender | 0.560 | 0.743 | ---- | ---- | ||||||||
Smoking history | 0.533 | 0.295 | 0.532 | 0.250 | ||||||||
Alcohol consumption | 0.867 | 0.502 | 0.773 | 0.896 | ||||||||
Mouth region | 0.454 | 0.118 | 0.845 | 0.495 | ||||||||
Retromolar | 4 | 6.2 | 4 | 7.8 | 4 | 8.1 | 4 | 4.6 | ||||
Oral floor | 10 | 5.2 | 10 | 5.3 | 8 | 8.0 | 7 | 8.3 | ||||
Lower gingiva | 3 | 7.1 | 3 | 7.9 | 3 | 10.2 | 3 | 15.9 | ||||
Tongue | 13 | 7.5 | 14 | 6.4 | 11 | 9.7 | 10 | 7.4 | ||||
Histological Differentiation | 0.629 | 0.526 | 0.987 | 0.711 | ||||||||
Desmoplasia | 0.986 | 0.869 | 0.288 | 0.085 | ||||||||
Perineural infiltration | 0.780 | 0.721 | 0.833 | 0.538 | ||||||||
T | 0.491 | 0.443 | 1.000 | 0.567 | ||||||||
pT1 + pT2 | 11 | 7.0 | 12 | 6.0 | 9 | 8.7 | 7 | 6.9 | ||||
pT3 + pT4 | 19 | 6.7 | 19 | 6.6 | 17 | 8.7 | 17 | 7.6 | ||||
N | 0.722 | 0.767 | 0.085 | 0.202 | ||||||||
pN0 + pN1 | 17 | 7.0 | 17 | 6.3 | 14 | 6.7 | 13 | 6.9 | ||||
pN2 + pN3 | 13 | 6.7 | 14 | 6.5 | 12 | 9.6 | 11 | 7.6 | ||||
Clinical Staging | 0.423 | 0.998 | 0.652 | 0.819 | ||||||||
Metastasis | 0.717 | 0.159 | 0.355 | 0.698 | ||||||||
Absent | 25 | 6.5 | 26 | 6.6 | 22 | 9.0 | 20 | 7.4 | ||||
Present | 5 | 7.1 | 5 | 5.1 | 4 | 6.5 | 4 | 6.0 | ||||
Local recurrence | 0.052 | 0.618 | 0.544 | 0.874 | ||||||||
Negative | 22 | 6.5 | 22 | 6.3 | 19 | 8.4 | 17 | 7.5 | ||||
Positive | 8 | 8.4 | 9 | 6.7 | 7 | 9.7 | 7 | 7.2 | ||||
Outcome | 0.083 | 0.859 | 0.314 | 0.052 | ||||||||
Disease free | 14 | 6.0 | 14 | 6.2 | 11 | 6.9 | 10 | 7.2 | ||||
Death for other reasons | 3 | 8.7 | 3 | 6.6 | 3 | 10.2 | 3 | 15.9 | ||||
Death by cancer | 13 | 7.8 | 14 | 6.6 | 12 | 9.0 | 11 | 5.8 |