Corrigendum to “Predictive Value of Plasma MicroRNA-216a/b in the Diagnosis of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

Table 1

Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with ESCC.

Characteristics	(%)	Plasma miRNA relative expression level (mean SD)
		miR-216a	value	miR-216b	value
Age (year)			0.1082		0.2125
≤63	46 (38.3)
>63	74 (61.7)
Gender			0.5388		0.5912
Male	79 (65.8)
Female	41 (34.2)
Smoking			0.1342		0.6168
Never	52 (43.3)
Ever	68 (56.7)
Alcohol use			0.2378		0.5386
Never	40 (33.3)
Ever	80 (66.7)
Tumor location			0.3136		0.1810
Upper esophagus	11 (9.2)
Middle esophagus	70 (58.3)
Low esophagus	39 (32.5)
Histologic grade			0.8959		0.8308
Well differentiated	33 (27.5)
Moderate differentiated	70 (58.3)
Poor differentiated	17 (14.2)
T stage			0.3206		0.6600
Tis-T1	36 (30.0)
T2	28 (23.3)
T3	41 (34.2)
T4	15 (12.5)
Lymph node metastasis			0.0845		0.0168
Negative	42 (35.0)
Positive	78 (65.0)
TNM stage			0.0054		0.0359
0-I	29 (24.2)
II	28 (23.3)
III	40 (33.3)
IV	23 (19.2)