From: A prediction nomogram for perineural invasion in colorectal cancer patients: a retrospective study
Characteristics | Training set (n = 221) | Validation set (n = 114) | ||||
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PNI-negative n (%) | PNI-positive n (%) | P-value | PNI-negative n (%) | PNI-positive n (%) | P-value | |
Gender | Â | Â | 0.942 | Â | Â | 0.208 |
 Female | 59 (50) | 52 (51) |  | 32 (47) | 28 (61) |  |
 Male | 60 (50) | 50 (49) |  | 36 (53) | 18 (39) |  |
Age (years) | Â | Â | 0.761 | Â | Â | 0.454 |
 Median (IQR) (year) | 60 (53, 69) | 59.5 (54, 68.75) |  | 66 (55.25, 73) | 63.5 (56.25, 68.75) |  |
BMI (Kg/m2) | Â | Â | 0.266 | Â | Â | 0.436 |
 Median (IQR)(Kg/m2) | 21.63 (20.24, 23.61) | 21.52 (19.82, 23.05) |  | 21.6 (20.07, 23.51) | 21.05 (20.19, 22.56) |  |
Smoking | Â | Â | 0.243 | Â | Â | 0.953 |
 NO | 90 (76) | 69 (68) |  | 43 (63) | 28 (61) |  |
 YES | 29 (24) | 33 (32) |  | 25 (37) | 18 (39) |  |
CEA(ng/ml) | Â | Â | 0.006 | Â | Â | 0.371 |
  ≤ 5 | 59 (50) | 31 (30) |  | 41 (60) | 23 (50) |  |
  > 5 | 60 (50) | 71 (70) |  | 27 (40) | 23 (50) |  |
CA199(KU/L) | Â | Â | 0.044 | Â | Â | 0.347 |
  ≤ 35 | 108 (91) | 82 (80) |  | 63 (93) | 40 (87) |  |
  > 35 | 11 (9) | 20 (20) |  | 5 (7) | 6 (13) |  |
CA125(KU/L) | Â | Â | 0.127 | Â | Â | 0.391 |
  ≤ 35 | 113 (95) | 101 (99) |  | 66 (97) | 43 (93) |  |
  > 35 | 6 (5) | 1 (1) |  | 2 (3) | 3 (7) |  |
TAP(um2) | Â | Â | 0.899 | Â | Â | 0.934 |
  ≤ 121 | 10 (8) | 10 (10) |  | 4 (6) | 2 (4) |  |
  > 121 | 109 (92) | 92 (90) |  | 64 (94) | 44 (96) |  |
NLR | Â | Â | 0.026 | Â | Â | 0.024 |
  ≤ 2.52 | 47 (39) | 25 (25) |  | 30 (44) | 10 (22) |  |
  > 2.52 | 72 (61) | 77 (75) |  | 38 (56) | 36 (78) |  |
PLR | Â | Â | 0.013 | Â | Â | 0.339 |
  ≤ 136.98 | 53 (45) | 28 (27) |  | 31 (46) | 16 (35) |  |
  > 136.98 | 66 (55) | 74 (73) |  | 37 (54) | 30 (65) |  |
LMR | Â | Â | 0.383 | Â | Â | 0.032 |
  ≤ 2.76 | 39 (33) | 27 (26) |  | 24 (35) | 7 (15) |  |
  > 2.76 | 80 (67) | 75 (74) |  | 44 (65) | 39 (85) |  |
CT N-stage | Â | Â | 0.065 | Â | Â | 0.416 |
 N0 | 44 (37) | 25 (25) |  | 27 (40) | 14 (30) |  |
 N1-N2 | 75 (63) | 77 (75) |  | 41 (60) | 32 (70) |  |
CT T-stage | Â | Â | 0.001 | Â | Â | 0.182 |
T1-T2 | 64 (54) | 32 (31) | Â | 35 (51) | 17 (37) | Â |
T3-T4 | 55 (46) | 70 (69) | Â | 33 (49) | 29 (63) | Â |
Primary site |  |  |  < 0.001 |  |  | 0.008 |
 Left colon | 48 (40) | 26 (25) |  | 24 (35) | 7 (15) |  |
 Right colon | 32 (27) | 17 (17) |  | 23 (34) | 12 (26) |  |
 Rectum | 39 (33) | 59 (58) |  | 21 (31) | 27 (59) |  |
Endoscopic biopsy | Â | Â | 0.004 | Â | Â | 0.002 |
 Poorly | 10 (8) | 16 (16) |  | 5 (7) | 7 (15) |  |
 Moderately | 91 (76) | 83 (81) |  | 51 (75) | 39 (85) |  |
 Well | 18 (15) | 3 (3) |  | 12 (18) | 0 (0) |  |
Pathological type | Â | Â | 0.536 | Â | Â | 0.875 |
 adenocarcinoma | 111 (93) | 98 (96) |  | 64 (94) | 44 (96) |  |
 non-adenocarcinoma | 8 (7) | 4 (4) |  | 4 (6) | 2 (4) |  |
Tumor gross type | Â | Â | 0.037 | Â | Â | 0.071 |
 Ulceration | 44 (37) | 54 (53) |  | 22 (32) | 25 (54) |  |
 Infiltrative | 4 (3) | 4 (4) |  | 5 (7) | 3 (7) |  |
 Protruded | 69 (58) | 40 (39) |  | 40 (59) | 17 (37) |  |
 Other | 2 (2) | 4 (4) |  | 1 (1) | 1 (2) |  |