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Assessing the potential role of neutrophil elastase as a prognostic indicator in oral squamous cell carcinoma

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Pratiksha Mahajan

Mahajan, Pratiksha

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A. Thirumal Raj

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05 avr. 2020

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Forum of Clinical Oncology

Édition 10 (2019): Edition 2 (Décembre 2019)

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Catégorie d'article: Research Article

Publié en ligne: 05 avr. 2020

Pages: 34 - 38

Reçu: 10 sept. 2018

Accepté: 25 mars 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fco-2019-0004

Mots clés
Leukocyte elastase, lymphatic metastasis, staining and labelling, carcinoma, squamous cell

© 2019 Pooja Jaiswal et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

NE immunostaining in OSCC. A- No NE immuno-staining (400 × magnification), B- Mild (1–25%) NE immuno-staining (400 × magnification), C- Intense (>50%) NE immuno-staining (400 × magnification).

Study characteristics_

Study groups	Average Age (in years)	Gender		Site				Staging

		Male	Female	Gingivo-buccal sulcus	Alveolus	Tongue	Buccal mucosa	III	IV
OSCC with lymph node metastasis	52.92	16	9	8	10	3	4	18	7
OSCC without lymph node metastasis	53.88	17	8	9	11	2	3	19	6

Association between staining intensity and lymph node status_

Staining Intensity	Lymph node status			p-value

	N1	N2	N3
Negative	7	0	0	0.001^*
Positive, well differentiated	4	4	3
Positive Moderately Differentiated	0	3	4

Association between staining intensity and lymph node involvement_

Staining Intensity	Lymph node involvement		p-value

	Positive	Negative
Negative	7	20	0.0005^*
+ Positive	12	2
++ Positive	6	3
+++ Positive	0	0

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