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Table 5 Correlation among per area of collagen fibers, the expression level of luciferase and MMP-2 in lung of KM and FM3A SiLN removal groups

From: Evaluation of metastatic niches in distant organs after surgical removal of tumor-bearing lymph nodes

  

KM group

FM3A group

collagen fibers

MMP-2

P = 0.016, r = −0.847

P = 0.013, r = − 0.748

collagen fibers

Luciferase

P = 0.012, r = − 0.865

P = 0.030, r = − 0.681

  1. P < 0.05 was considered significant; r: Spearman correlation coefficient