Research Article
Clinical Usefulness of the VS Classification System Using Magnifying Endoscopy with Blue Laser Imaging for Early Gastric Cancer
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of the patients (
) and the early gastric cancers (
).
| Characteristic | |
| Sex ratio (male/female) | 280/106 | Age, years, mean (SD) | 70.3 (10.4) | Tumor location, n (%) | | Upper | 74 (18) | Middle | 138 (33) | Lower | 205 (49) | Macroscopic type, n (%) | | 0-I, 0–IIa | 142 (34) | 0–IIb, 0–IIc | 275 (66) | Tumor size, mm, mean (SD) | 18.6 (13.2) | Histological type, n (%) | | Differentiated | 383 (92) | Undifferentiated | 34 (8) | Depth, n (%) | | T1a | 377 (90) | T1b | 40 (10) | Helicobacter pylori | | Eradicated, n (%) | 79 (19) | Noneradicated, n (%) | 338 (81) |
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SD: standard deviation.
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