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Table 1 Clinicopathological presentations of LCH patients

From: Frequency detection of BRAF V600E mutation in a cohort of pediatric langerhans cell histiocytosis patients by next-generation sequencing

 

Total

BRAF V600E

Without1

p-value, significance2

n (%)

148

60 (41%)

88

 

Gender, n (%)

   

0.689, ns

Male

88 (59%)

34 (39%)

54

 

Female

60 (41%)

26 (43%)

34

 

Onset age, n (y, %)

   

0.575, ns

Median (years, range)

2 (0–16)

2 (0–11.8)

2 (0–16)

 

< 1

43 (29%)

18

25

 

1 ~ 2

41 (28%)

17

24

 

3 ~ 5

39 (26%)

17

22

 

 > 5

25 (17%)

8

17

 

Stage, n (%)

   

0.154, ns

SS-S

44 (30%)

17 (39%)

27

 

SS-M

26 (18%)

9 (35%)

17

 

MS-RO−

57 (39%)

21 (37%)

36

 

MS-RO+

21 (14%)

13 (62%)

8

 

Organ involved3, n (%)

    

Bone

117 (79%)

46 (39%)

71

0.701, ns

Skin

61 (41%)

28 (46%)

33

0.346, ns

Lung

38 (26%)

13 (34%)

25

0.465, ns

Lymph node

21 (14%)

6 (29%)

15

0.368, ns

Liver

20 (14%)

8 (40%)

12

1.000, ns

Spleen

12 (8%)

6 (50%)

6

0.546, ns

Pituitary gland

11 (7%)

3 (27%)

8

0.527, ns

Bone marrow

6 (4%)

3 (50%)

3

0.683, ns

Thymus

5 (3%)

1 (20%)

4

0.648, ns

Sample type4, n (%)

    

Peripheral blood

78 (53%)

18 (23%)

60

0.000, ***

FFPE tissue

84 (57%)

45 (54%)

39

0.000, ***

Mutant TP53, n (%)

   

0.572, ns

 + 

72 (49%)

27 (38%)

45

 

−

76 (51%)

33 (43%)

43

 

Masses close to the lesion, n (%)

   

1.000, ns

 + 

71 (48%)

29 (41%)

42

 

−

77 (52%)

31 (40%)

46

 

Recurrence, n (%)(out of 136)

   

0.407, ns

 + 

41 (30%)

11

30

 

−

95 (70%)

45

50

 

Clinical outcome, n (%)(out of 136)

   

–

Improved

127 (93%)

49

78

 

Not

9 (7%)

6

3

 
  1. 1Includes one patient with next-generation sequencing failure
  2. 2ns, not significant; ***, p < 0.001, statistically significant (also marked in bold)
  3. 3Correlations between the involvement of each organ and mutation status were analyzed individually
  4. 4Both peripheral blood and FFPE tissue were used for 14 patients