Table 2 Association between intratumoral lymphatic microvessel density (LMVD) and clinicopathological features
Variable | categories | LMVD | p1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
low n | high n | |||
Age | 45-69 years | 12 | 21 | 0.051 |
≥ 70 years | 15 | 9 | ||
Histological type | Endometrioid | 19 | 25 | 0.396 |
Non-Endometrioid | 8 | 5 | ||
Histological grade (Vancouver system) | low | 20 | 24 | 0.594 |
high | 7 | 6 | ||
FIGO stage | I | 9 | 19 | 0.145 |
II | 2 | 2 | ||
III | 14 | 8 | ||
IV | 2 | 1 | ||
Vascular invasion | no | 6 | 9 | 0.576 |
yes | 8 | 8 | ||
Myometrial infiltration | < 50% | 10 | 20 | 0.034 |
> 50% | 17 | 9 | ||
Cervical infiltration | no | 12 | 22 | 0.047 |
yes | 14 | 7 | ||
Adnaexal involvement | no | 19 | 28 | 0.023 |
yes | 8 | 2 | ||
Peritoneal involvement | no | 17 | 24 | 0.055 |
yes | 5 | 1 | ||
Lymph node involvement | no | 14 | 21 | 0.160 |
yes | 13 | 9 | ||
Outcome | alive | 18 | 27 | 0.031 |
death | 9 | 3 | ||
Total | 57 | 27 | 30 | |