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Table 2 Significance of eosinophils in invasive and non-invasive squamous neoplasia

From: Tissue eosinophilia: a morphologic marker for assessing stromal invasion in laryngeal squamous neoplasms

Lesion

Eosinophils Counts

 

5–9 eos/hpf 1

p

>or = 10 eos/hpf

p

5–19 eosin/10hpf2

p

>or = 20 eos10/hpf

p

Invasive CA in biopsy

8/41(20%)

>0.05

27/41(66%)

<0.01

10/41(24%)

>0.05

25(61%)

<0.005

Non invasive lesion in biopsy

1/16(6%)

 

1/16(6%)

 

3/16(18%))

 

0/16(--)

 

Invasive CA in Excision

8/22(36%)

>0.05

9/22(41%)

<0.05

7(31%)

>0.05

11((50%)

<0.05

Non-invasive lesion in excision

1/8(12%)

 

0/8(--)

 

1(12%)

 

0/8(----)

 
  1. 1 eos/hpf: for each specimen, a high power field (hpf) (Olympus BH2 ×10 ocular and ×40 objective lens) with a maximum number of eosinophils in the lesion area
  2. 2 eos/10hpf: for each specimen, one high power field (hpf) (Olympus BH2 ×10 ocular and ×40 objective lens) with a maximum number of eosinophils in the lesion area and additional nine hpfs in the contiguous areas
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