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Table 1 Clinico-pathological data for 56 papillary thyroid carcinoma cases and relationship between CXCR4 expression and covariates

From: CXCR4 expression in papillary thyroid carcinoma: induction by nitric oxide and correlation with lymph node metastasis

Factors

 

CXCR4 expression

 

p value

  

Negative

Positive

 

Age

<45

10

11

0.4009

 

≧45

12

23

 

Sex

Male

4

3

0.4149

 

Female

18

31

 

Histology

Well Diff.

20

29

0.1989

 

Follicular variant

2

2

 
 

Poorly Diff.

0

3

 

Tumor size

pT1

1

6

0.1585

 

pT2

16

21

 
 

pT3

3

1

 
 

pT4

2

6

 

Lymph node Metastasis

pN0

10

4

0.0116

 

pN1a

3

12

 
 

pN1b

9

18

 

Nitrotyrosine Levels

Low grade

19

8

<0.001

 

High grade

3

26

 
  1. *Tumor size, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis were classified according to the TNM classification of the UICC, 2002
  2. *Fisher's exact test was used to examine the association between CXCR4 expression and covariates.
  3. *Diff.: Differentiated
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