Fig 1.
A tumor with low number of buds (marked with black arrows) shown in a, and a tumor with high number of buds in b.
Table 1.
Shift in T-classification; T-status according to old classification in the first column, the T-status according to TNM8 in the second.
Table 2.
Spearman bivariate correlation between TB and the variables T, N and DOI in the whole cohort.
Table 3.
Spearman bivariate correlation between DOI 2-tier, DOI 3-tier and TB/DOI and the variables T and N in the whole cohort.
Fig 2.
Kaplan Meier survival curves based on TB applying the 2-tier cutoff for TB (A) and the 3-tier cutoff (B).
Table 4.
Characteristics of the patients (n = 150) with OTSCC treated in curative intent, including number of cases, percent of patients with disease-specific survival (DSS) with p-value (p), 95% confidence interval (CI), and hazard ratio (HR).
Table 5.
Low-stage and high-stage disease evaluated separately.
Percentage of 5-year DSS and p-value for each group.