Table 3 Association between compositional TDLNs+ patterns and patients’ clinicopathological features

From: Prognostic patterns in invasion lymph nodes of lung adenocarcinoma reveal distinct tumor microenvironments

Clinicopathological variables

Case

Compositional pattern

χ2

p-value

Colloid

Necrosis

Specific

Common

Gender

Male

161

58

26

8

69

0.752

0.861

Female

151

53

21

6

71

  

Age

≤60

158

49

26

9

74

3.604

0.308

>60

154

62

21

5

66

  

Smoke

Ever

92

36

15

4

37

1.232

0.745

Never

220

75

32

10

103

  

Tumor size

≤3 cm

160

54

19

6

81

5.346

0.148

>3 cm

152

57

28

8

59

  

Tumor location

RUL

86

24

19

3

40

26.003

0.011*

RML

36

17

4

1

14

  

RLL

56

17

2

3

34

  

LUL

80

34

14

7

25

  

LLL

54

19

8

0

27

  

Driver mutation

EGFR

151

68

18

5

60

14.542

0.104

KRAS

34

8

5

2

19

  

FUSION

41

10

6

2

23

  

Wild-type

86

25

18

5

38

  

Vascular invasion

Absent

194

68

24

8

94

4.127

0.248

Present

118

43

23

6

46

  

pStage N

N1

164

61

17

5

81

8.488

0.037*

N2

148

50

30

9

59

  

Primary tumor WHO classification

Acinar

148

49

18

8

73

9.921

0.357

 

Papillary

70

32

8

2

28

  
 

Solid

61

20

13

2

26

  
 

Micropapillary

33

10

8

2

13

  

Metastatic LN WHO classification

Acinar

118

49

13

2

54

21.21

0.012*

 

Papillary

75

18

12

2

43

  
 

Solid

96

37

19

9

31

  
 

Micropapillary

23

7

3

1

12

  

LNR status

Low (<0.33)

206

67

24

6

109

18.365

<0.001*

 

High (>0.33)

106

44

23

8

31

  
  1. *Statistical significance determined by χ2 (chi-square) test (p < 0.05).