Pathobiological significance of vascular endothelial growth factor and Maspin expressions in human gastric carcinoma

Table 2 Relationship between VEGF expression and gross and histological types of gastric carcinoma (n = 73)

Type	n	VEGF expression		Positive rate (%)
		-	+
Gross types
EGCa	24	8	16	66.7
I	4	0	4	100.0
II	12	6	6	50.0
III	7	2	5	71.4
SS1	1	0	1	100.0
AGC	49	6	43	87.8
Bor. 0	3	0	3	100.0
Bor. I	1	0	1	100.0
Bor. II	6	0	6	100.0
Bor. III	36	5	31	86.1
Bor. IV	3	1	2	66.7
Histological type
Papillary adenocarcinoma	8	1	7	87.5
Well-differentiated adenocarcinoma	3	2	1	33.3
Moderately-differentiated adenocarcinoma	11	3	8	72.7
Poorly-differentiated adenocarcinoma	30	5	25	83.3
Undifferentiated carcinoma	3	1	2	66.7
Signet-ring cell carcinoma	10	1	9	90.0
Mucinous adenocarcinoma	7	0	7	100.0
Carcinoid	1	1	0	-

^aP = 0.032 vs AGC (χ² = 4.62), There was no correlation between the expression of VEGF and histology typing or gross typing (P > 0.05).

¹EGC SS (early gastric carcinomas of superficial spreading type).