Table 2

Clinical and histological characteristics of IBC and non-IBC cases.

Variables
IBC
Non-IBC
p

Age



Min
22
25

Max
76
94
<0.001
Mean
43.47
59.43

Standard deviation
9.43
12.77

Grade



I
3(3.3%)
176(32.41%)

II
60(65.93%)
229(42.17%)
<0.001
III
28(30.77%)
138(25.41%) *

Histological type



Invasive ductal carcinoma
86(94.5)
386(70.56)

Micropapillary carcinoma
5(5.5)
0

Lobular carcinoma
0
72(13.16)

Tubular carcinoma
0
37(6.76)
<0.001
Mixt
0
24(4.38)

Medullary carcinoma
0
8(1.46)

Others
0
20(3.65)


* 4 cases non valuable for the histoprognostic grade.

Ben Hamida et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:28   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-28