Research Article
The Characteristics, Prognosis, and Risk Factors of Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Gastric Cancer
Table 3
Pathological features of the included patients.
| | Total () | LNM (−) () (%) | LNM (+) () (%) | value |
| | Depth of invasion | | | | <0.001 | | Mucosa | 503 (50.1%) | 474 (53.8%) | 29 (23.6%) | | | Submucosa | 501 (50.0%) | 407 (46.2%) | 94 (76.4%) | | | Japanese classification | | | | <0.001 | | Differentiated | 724 (72.1%) | 664 (75.4%) | 60 (48.9%) | | | Undifferentiated | 280 (27.9%) | 217 (24.6%) | 63 (51.2%) | | | WTO | | | | <0.001 | | Well | 449 (44.7%) | 351 (39.8%) | 98 (79.7%) | | | Moderately | 375 (37.4) | 353 (40.1%) | 22 (17.9%) | | | Poorly | 180 (17.9%) | 177 (20.1%) | 3 (2.4%) | | | Histological morphology | | | | <0.001 | | Adenocarcinoma | 793 (79.0%) | 719 (81.6%) | 74 (60.2%) | | | Mucinous carcinomas | 48 (4.8%) | 39 (4.4%) | 9 (7.3%) | | | Signet ring cell | 155 (15.4%) | 116 (13.2%) | 39 (31.7%) | | | Carcinoma with lymphoid stroma | 3 (0.3%) | 3 (0.3%) | 0 (0%) | | | Neuroendocrine carcinoma | 5 (0.5%) | 4 (0.5%) | 1 (0.8%) | | | Perineural invasion | 7 (0.6%) | 6 (0.7%) | 1 (0.8%) | 0.869 | | LVI | 60 (6.0%) | 29 (3.3%) | 31 (25.2%) | <0.001 | | TMN | | | | 0.011 | | Stage 0 | 914 (91.0%) | 881 (100%) | 33 (26.8%) | | | Stage I | 90 (9.0%) | 0 | 90 (73.2%) | |
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