Epstein-Barr virus associated gastric carcinoma: a report from Iran in the last four decades

Diagnostic Pathology

Table 2 Distribution of EBER-1 positive gastric carcinomas by histological type and gender

Histology¹	Male	Female	Total
	EBER+/N² (%)	EBER+/N (%)	EBER+/N (%)
Intestinal	1/113 (1)	0/39 (0)	1/152 (1)
pap	0/11 (0)	0/3 (0)	0/14 (0)
tub1	0/36 (0)	0/11 (0)	0/47 (0)
tub2	1/50 (2)	0/16 (0)	1/66 (1)
muc	0/16 (0)	0/9 (0)	0/25 (0)
Diffuse	7/83 (8)	1/38 (3)	8/121 (7)
por1	3/34 (8)	1/16 (6)	4/50 (8)
por2	4/40 (10)	0/18 (0)	4/58 (8)
sig	0/9 (0)	0/4 (0)	0/13 (0)

¹ pap:papillary adenocarcinoma; tub1:well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma; tub2:moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma; por1:solid poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma; por2:non-solid poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma; sig: signet ring cell carcinoma; muc:mucinous carcinoma; ² total number of cases in each group (Based on Japanese research society for gastric cancer)

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