Clinical Study
Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Characterisation of Gastric Schwannomas in 29 Cases
Table 3
Comparison of clinical and pathologic variables between benign and malignant gastric schwannoma.
| Variables | Benign schwannoma () | Malignant schwannoma () | value |
| Age | | | | <median age | 12 | 2 | 1.00 | ≥median age | 13 | 2 | Gender | | | | Male | 9 | 2 | 0.622 | Female | 16 | 2 | Anatomic location | | | | Gastric antrum | 8 | 2 | 0.299 | Gastric fundus | 6 | 0 | Gastric body (lesser curvature) | 5 | 0 | Gastric body (greater curvature) | 5 | 2 | Cardia | 1 | 0 | Tumor size | | | | <median size | 13 | 0 | 0.107 | ≥median size | 12 | 4 | Ulcer of mucosa | 21 | 3 | 0.553 | Recurrences or metastatic | 0 | 2 | 0.015 | Survival status | | | | Alive with no evidence of disease | 18 | 1 | 0.021 | Died of unrelated causes | 6 | 1 | Died of metastasis or recurrent of the primary disease | 0 | 2 | Lost to followup | 1 | 0 |
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