Crosstabulation of EMA and sLex expression in IMPC and their correlation
| Characteristics | EMA in cytomembrane | EMA in cytoplasm | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative n (%) | Positive n (%) | P value | Negative n (%) | Positive n (%) | P value | |
| sLex in cytomembrane | 0.328 | |||||
| Negative | 0 (0.0) | 8 (8.9) | ||||
| Positive | 10 (100.0) | 82 (91.1) | ||||
| sLex in cytoplasm | 0.288 | |||||
| Negative | 6 (17.6) | 18 (27.3) | ||||
| Positive | 28 (82.4) | 48 (72.7) | ||||
IMPC, invasive micropapillary carcinoma; IDC-NOS, invasive ductal carcinoma, non-special type; sLex, sialylated Lewis glycoprotein X; EMA, epithelial membrane antigen. P < 0.05, calculated with chi-square test.