Table 6 Size of cervical lymph node and metastasis in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma
From: Prognostic factors of cervical node status in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Size of cervical node | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1–3 mm | p value a | 4–6 mm | p value a | 7–9 mm | p value a | 10–30 mm | p value a | >30 mm | p value a | ||||||
+ | − | + | − | + | − | + | − | + | − | ||||||
9 | 112 | 14 | 89 | 15 | 61 | 40 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Clinical staging | 0.354 | 0.794 | 0.576 | 0.320 | NA | ||||||||||
Stage I | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Stage II | 0 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Stage III | 3 | 54 | 6 | 44 | 5 | 29 | 22 | 28 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Stage IV | 6 | 49 | 6 | 37 | 6 | 21 | 14 | 28 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Tumor size | 0.033 | 0.467 | 0.915 | 0.140 | NA | ||||||||||
≤ 1.0 cm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
1.1–2.0 cm | 1 | 61 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
2.1–3.0 cm | 3 | 15 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |||||
3.1–4.0 cm | 2 | 24 | 3 | 36 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 33 | 0 | 0 | |||||
> 4.0 cm | 3 | 12 | 4 | 25 | 3 | 11 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Pathologic differentiation | 0.044 | 0.711 | 0.278 | 0.028 | NA | ||||||||||
Well differentiated | 2 | 58 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 29 | 18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Moderately differentiated | 2 | 32 | 6 | 27 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 22 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Poorly differentiated | 4 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Undifferentiated | 1 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | |||||