Table 2 Clinicopathologic features of 119 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients with preoperative bone scan and 42 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients without preoperative bone scan
From: Is there a role of whole-body bone scan in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Parameters | No. of patients | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
With bone scan before op (n = 119) | Without bone scan before op (n = 42) | |||
Mean age (range):54.34(29–77) | 54.62 (37–77) | 53.55 (29–66) | 0.498 | |
Sex | Male | 115 | 41 | 1.000 |
Female | 4 | 1 | ||
Protocol | Op | 67 | 28 | 0.240 |
Pre-op CCRT + op | 52 | 14 | ||
Primary tumor | T1 + 2 | 41 | 12 | 0.486 |
T3 + 4 | 78 | 30 | ||
Lymph node | Negative | 55 | 20 | 0.876 |
Positive | 64 | 22 | ||
7th AJCC stage | I + II | 60 | 20 | 0.755 |
III | 59 | 22 | ||
Surgical margin | Positive | 10 | 2 | 0.733 |
Negative | 109 | 40 | ||