Research Article
Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognostic Factors of Primary Bladder Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma
Table 1
Baseline demographic and clinicopathologic characteristics for PSRCC patients.
| Variables | N | N% |
| Gender | | | Female | 43 | 27.4 | Male | 114 | 72.6 |
| Age, y | | | <60 | 60 | 38.2 | ≥60 | 97 | 61.8 |
| Race | | | White | 133 | 84.7 | Black | 16 | 10.2 | Other | 8 | 5.1 |
| AJCC 6th stage | | | I | 17 | 10.8 | II | 34 | 21.7 | III | 33 | 21.0 | IV | 73 | 46.5 |
| AJCC 6th T stage | | | T1 | 19 | 12.1 | T2 | 42 | 26.8 | T3 | 38 | 24.2 | T4 | 58 | 36.9 |
| AJCC 6th N stage | | | N0 | 98 | 62.4 | None N0 | 59 | 37.6 |
| AJCC 6th M stage | | | M0 | 130 | 82.8 | M1 | 27 | 17.2 |
| Histologic grade | | | <IV | 108 | 68.8 | IV | 49 | 31.2 |
| Tumor size, mm | | | <100 | 74 | 47.1 | 100∼200 | 8 | 5.1 | Unknown | 75 | 47.8 |
| Year of diagnosis | | | 2004∼2009 | 76 | 48.4 | 2010∼2015 | 81 | 51.6 |
| Surgery | | | None | 11 | 7.0 | TURB | 49 | 31.2 | Partial cystectomy | 12 | 7.6 | Radical cystectomy + reconstruction | 42 | 26.8 | Pelvic exenteration | 34 | 21.7 | Other | 9 | 5.7 |
| Lymph nodes removed | | | None | 82 | 52.2 | 1 to 3 regional | 3 | 1.9 | 4 or more regional | 72 | 45.9 |
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