Epidemiological Characteristics and Survival Studies of Rhabdomyosarcoma in East Egypt: A Five-Year Multicenter Study

Table 4

Relationship between primary site of tumor, histopathology, and metastasis.

	Head and neck		Extremities		Genitourinary		Retroperitoneum		𝑥^2	P value
	𝑛=15	%	𝑛=12	%	𝑛=8	%	𝑛=6	%
Histopathology
Embryonal (𝑛=27)	15	100	5	41.7	4	50.0	3	50.0	26.59	<0.001**
Alveolar (𝑛=9)	0	0	7	58.3	0	0	2	33.3	21.37	<0.001**
Others (𝑛=5)	0	0	0	0	4	50.0	1	16.7	14.32	0.002*
Metastasis
−ve	10	62.5	5	28.6	4	75	4	50	2.09	0.55
+ve	5	37.5	7	71.4	2	25	4	50

**: highly significant; *: significant.