Research Article
Tumor Budding, uPA, and PAI-1 in Colorectal Cancer: Update of a Prospective Study
Table 1
Clinicopathologic data: test set.
| | | Malignant () | Nonmalignant () |
| | Mean age ± SD | 71 ± 13 | 68 ± 8 | | Gender (m : f) | 0.57 : 1 | 0.33 : 1 | | Right colon | 19 | 3 | | Left colon | 36 | 1 | | Conventional histological type | 48 | / | | Mucinous type | 4 | / | | Medullary type | 1 | / | | Micropapillary type | 2 | / | | Infiltrative invasion | 4 | / | | pT 1/2 | 16 | / | | pT 3/4 | 39 | / | | Low/moderate grade | 39 | / | | High grade | 16 | / | | Node positive | 21 | / | | Lymphatic invasion | 4 | / | | Venous invasion | 6 | / | | Perineural invasion | 3 | / | | Strong chronic inflammation | 11 | / | | Metastatic disease | 7 | / | | Mean LN, number ± SD | 33 ± 18 | 19 ± 6 |
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type according to Jass. SD, standard deviation; LN, lymph nodes.
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