Table 3 Correlation of CD44, CD133, SOX2 and Nanog expression with clinicopathological factors for MEC of the palate.
Variables | CD44 | P-value | CD133 | P-value | SOX2 | P-value | Nanog | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
− | +/++ | − | +/++ | − | +/++ | − | +/++ | |||||
Histological grade | ||||||||||||
Low grade | 7 | 31 | 8 | 30 | 17 | 21 | 13 | 25 | ||||
Intermediate grade | 5 | 26 | 4 | 27 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 22 | ||||
High grade | 1 | 5 | 0.829 | 0 | 6 | 0.556 | 2 | 4 | 0.592 | 1 | 5 | 0.803 |
Tumor stage | ||||||||||||
T1 | 6 | 35 | 5 | 36 | 13 | 28 | 14 | 27 | ||||
T2 | 6 | 21 | 7 | 20 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 19 | ||||
T3 & T4 | 1 | 6 | 0.807 | 0 | 7 | 0.214 | 3 | 4 | 0.387 | 1 | 6 | 0.663 |
