Ezrin overexpression predicts the poor prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma

Diagnostic Pathology

Table 1 Ezrin protein expression in gastric adenocarcinoma

Diagnosis	Number of cases	Positive cases	Positive rate (%)	Strongly positive rate (%)
Diagnosis	Number of cases	- + ++ +++	Positive rate (%)	Strongly positive rate (%)
Gastric adenocarcinoma	277	56 53 102 66	79.8%**	60.6%**
Dysplasia	32	11 9 12 0	65.6%*	37.5%*
Normal mucosa	26	21 5 0 0	19.2%	0

Compared with normal mucosa *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01. Strongly positive: ++ and +++.

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