Research Article

The Expression of Snail, Galectin-3, and IGF1R in the Differential Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

Table 3

Galectin-3 IHC expression in PPGLs.

Negative ( (%))Weakly positive ( (%))Intermediately positive ( (%))Strongly positive ( (%))

Benign PHEO ()72 (75.0)22 (22.9)2 (2.1)0 (0)
Benign PGL ()10 (26.3)14 (36.8)12 (31.6)2 (5.3)76.741<0.001
Potentially malignant PPGL ()13 (16.7)34 (43.6)17 (21.8)14 (17.9)
Malignant PPGL ()1 (7.1)0 (0)6 (42.9)7 (50)