Rich A M, Radden B G
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1984 Feb;22(1):30-6. doi: 10.1016/0266-4356(84)90005-6.
One hundred and eighteen patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma were staged according to the TNM and STNMP systems. Although both staging systems separated patients into those with a good prognosis and those with a poorer prognosis the more sophisticated system (STNMP) did not provide any additional information. A possible explanation for this anomaly lies in the weighting used in the STNMP system.
118例口腔鳞状细胞癌患者根据TNM和STNMP系统进行分期。尽管这两种分期系统都将患者分为预后良好和预后较差的两类,但更为复杂的系统(STNMP)并未提供任何额外信息。对此异常现象的一种可能解释在于STNMP系统中所采用的权重。