Novel predictors for lymph node metastasis in submucosal invasive colorectal carcinoma

Table 2 Predictive powers of histopathological factors for lymph node metastasis

	Sensitivity	Specificity	Accuracy	Positive P value	Negative P value
Depth of submucosal invasion
by JSCCR	100.00%	20.81%	30.56%	15.05%	100.00%
by Kitajima	87.10%	34.39%	40.87%	15.70%	95.00%
by Ueno	100.00%	15.38%	25.79%	14.22%	100.00%
Width of submucosal invasion	90.32%	39.37%	45.63%	17.28%	96.67%
Depth multiplied by width
by JSCCR	96.77%	38.01%	45.24%	17.96%	98.82%
by Kitajima	83.87%	45.25%	50.00%	17.69%	95.24%
by Ueno	96.77%	34.39%	42.06%	17.14%	98.70%
Lymphatic invasion	74.19%	85.97%	84.52%	42.59%	95.96%
Tumor budding
by Ueno	74.19%	71.49%	71.83%	26.74%	95.18%
Present or absent	100.00%	53.84%	59.52%	23.31%	100.00%
PDCs	100.00%	49.77%	55.95%	21.83%	100.00%

JSCCR: Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum; PDCs: Poorly differentiated clusters.