Research Article

[Retracted] Clinicopathological Characteristics of Nonfunctional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms and the Effect of Surgical Treatment on the Prognosis of Patients with Liver Metastases: A Study Based on the SEER Database

Table 3

Demographic and clinical characteristics of NF-pNEN patients with liver metastasis versus no metastasis from 2000 to 2017 in the SEER database.

CharacteristicsLiver metastasis number of patients (%) ()No metastasis number of patients (%) () value value

Age (years)1.0500.306
 ≤60266 (50.3)1155 (47.8)
 >60263 (49.7)1260 (52.2)
Sex3.3040.069
 Male311 (58.8)1315 (54.5)
 Female218 (41.2)1100 (45.5)
Race0.9330.627
 White425 (80.3)1899 (78.6)
 Black57 (10.8)271 (11.2)
 Others47 (8.9)245 (10.1)
Primary site35.397<0.001
 Head161 (30.4)702 (29.1)
 Body46 (8.7)408 (16.9)
 Tail211 (39.9)905 (37.5)
 Islet3 (0.6)14 (0.6)
 Others12 (2.3)80 (3.3)
 Overlapping54 (10.2)138 (5.7)
 NOS42 (7.9)168 (7.0)
Grade255.107<0.001
 G1245 (46.3)1859 (77.0)
 G2140 (26.5)430 (17.8)
 G394 (17.8)106 (4.4)
 G438 (7.2)32 (1.3)
Tumor size (mm)60.744<0.001
 0-2042 (7.9)1094 (45.3)
 21-40177 (33.5)753 (31.2)
 ≥40310 (58.6)568 (23.5)

NOS: not otherwise specified. was considered statistically significant.