Prediction of the degree of pathological differentiation in tongue squamous cell carcinoma based on radiomics analysis of magnetic resonance images

Table 1 Patient characteristics in the primary and test cohort (n = 127)

	Pathological differentiation degree of TSCC
	Primary cohort				Test cohort
	Poorly differentiated (n = 23)	Moderately differentiated (n = 28)	Well differentiated (n = 21)	P-value	Poorly differentiated (n = 13)	Moderately differentiated (n = 20)	Well differentiated (n = 22)	P-value
Sex
Male	21	24	17	0.610	9	9	12	0.674
Female	2	4	4		4	11	10
Age, years
Range	39–75	43–75	38–75	0.514	47–68	53-72	34-62	0.694
Average	56.8	59.0	59.8		55.4	61.2	49.8
Localization of tumor
Tip	9	8	1	0.094	3	6	8	0.059
Body	9	10	12		7	6	6
Root	5	10	8		3	8	8
Pain
Yes	18	20	20	0.691	10	13	13	0.725
No	5	8	1		3	7	9
Margin
Well-circumscribed	8	8	3	0.094	3	8	18	0.053
Ill-defined	15	20	18		10	12	4
Cystic degeneration
Yes	14	13	14	0.330	7	12	5	0.191
No	9	15	7		6	8	17
Sublingual gland duct dilatation
Yes	10	12	6	0.514	3	7	2	0.483
No	13	16	15		10	13	20
Lymphatic metastasis
Yes	12	6	4	0.021	10	5	3	0.000
No	11	22	17		3	15	19
HPV
Positive	14	22	15	0.383	9	11	15	0.601
Negative	9	6	6		4	9	7

Notes: A P-value < 0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. *age’s test^ independent-samples t-test, others’s test^chi-square test

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