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