Table 1 Patient demographic characteristics.

From: Technical feasibility of radiomics signature analyses for improving detection of occult tonsillar cancer

 

Overt palatine tonsil SCC (n = 49)

Occult palatine tonsil SCC (n = 29)

Normal palatine tonsils (n = 94)

P-value

Age (years)

56.3 ± 8.0

63.4 ± 9.5

61.1 ± 9.4

0.006

Sex (M:F)

21:8

43:6

78:16

0.226

Tonsil size (mm)

Axial

38.0 ± 8.8

31.3 ± 6.3

24.0 ± 6.2

 < 0.001

Sagittal

35.3 ± 9.0

28.6 ± 6.2

21.6 ± 6.3

 < 0.001

Coronal

35.3 ± 9.0

28.3 ± 6.5

21.1 ± 6.7

 < 0.001

HPV status (%)

71.1 (27/38)

95.9 (25/26)

71.4 (5/7)*

0.038

  1. Numbers for age and tonsil size are the means ± standard deviation.
  2. HPV human papillomavirus; SCC squamous cell carcinoma.
  3. *The percentage indicates values for a limited number of patients with a carcinoma of an unknown primary site.
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