Fig. 1From: Correlation between lymphatic endothelial markers and lymph node status or N-staging of colorectal cancerExpression levels of markers in tumor tissues and para-cancerous tissues. Both LYVE-1 and VEGFR-3 had a significantly higher expression level in para-cancerous tissues than that in tumor tissues (LYVE-1: P < 0.001; VEGFR-3: P = 0.013), while Podoplanin had a lower expression level in para-cancerous tissues than in tumor tissues (P = 0.016); no significantly different expression levels between tumor tissues and para-cancerous tissues was found for Prox–1Back to article page