Clinicopathological Factors Influencing Lymph Node Yield in Colorectal Cancer: A Retrospective Study

Table 1

Clinicopathological data of 1259 surgically treated colon cancer patients.

		%
Gender
Males	705	56
Females	554	44
Age
<65	450	35.7
≥65	809	64.3
pT
T1	153	12.1
T2	154	12.2
T3	741	58.9
T4	211	16.8
Laterality
Right colon	610	48.5
Left colon	622	49.4
Total colectomy	27	2.1
Harvested LN
<12	1096	87.1
≥12	163	12.9
Mean LN (SD)
22.53 (13.13)

LNs: lymph nodes; pT: pathological tumor stage.