Table 1
Summary of patients and numbers of Marinesco bodies
| Patients | Age at death | Pathological diagnosis | Numbers of Marinesco bodies | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HE | Ubiquitin | Ataxin-3 | |||||||
| Control | 1 | 54 | Oesophageal cancer | 8 | 9 | 8 | |||
| 2 | 66 | Malignant lymphoma | 21 | 19 | 19 | ||||
| 3 | 53 | Lung cancer | 29 | 34 | 37 | ||||
| 4 | 51 | Cervical cancer | 28 | 34 | 30 | ||||
| 5 | 70 | Myocardial infarction | 68 | 64 | 61 | ||||
| Mean | 58.8 | 30.8 | 32 | 31 | |||||
| Hepatic | 6 | 67 | Liver cirrhosis | 24 | 30 | 28 | |||
| Encephalopathy | 7 | 66 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | 49 | 58 | 52 | |||
| 8 | 52 | Liver cirrhosis | 91 | 90 | 95 | ||||
| 9 | 46 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | 30 | 35 | 23 | ||||
| 10 | 66 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | 138 | 145 | 138 | ||||
| Mean | 59.4 | 66.4 | 71.6 | 67.2 | |||||
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HE=haematoxylin and eosin.
