Research Article
Evaluation of Endoscopic Ultrasound Image Quality Is Necessary in Endosonographic Assessment of Early Gastric Cancer Invasion Depth
Table 1
Characteristics of the included lesions.
| Characteristics | No. (%) |
| Location | | Upper third | 14 (18.4) | Middle third | 32 (42.1) | Lower third | 29 (38.2) | Tumor size (mean ± SD, mm) | 17.6 ± 11.5 | Gross morphologic type | | Depressed | 38 (51) | Elevated | 37 (49) | Concomitant ulceration | | Present | 17 (23) | Absent | 58 (77) | Histologic type | | Intestinal | 68 (91) | Diffuse | 7 (9) | EUS image quality | | 0 | 3 (4) | 1 | 11 (14.7) | 2 | 15 (20) | 3 | 46 (61.3) |
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