Figures & data
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of included patients collected from medical journals.
Table 2. Survival data generated by using Cox proportional hazard model.
Table 3. Recurrence data generated by using Cox proportional hazard model.
Table 4. Literature overview of studied histopathological markers.
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