Clinical Study
The Significance of Splenectomy for Advanced Proximal Gastric Cancer
Table 1
Clinicopathological characteristics of the patients who underwent total gastrectomy with or without splenectomy
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| | Characteristics | T
(%) | ST
(%) | P value |
| | Age (year) | | | 0.121 | | <70 | 163 (61.5) | 18 (75.0) | | | ≥70 | 102 (39.5) | 60 (25.0) | | | Age (year) | | | 0.481 | | Male | 198 (74.7) | 172 (71.7) | | | Female | 67 (25.3) | 68 (28.3) | | | Gross type | | | <0.001 | | Type 0, 1, 2 | 221 (83.4) | 100 (41.7) | | | Type 3, 4 | 44 (16.6) | 140 (58.3) | | | Tumor location | | | <0.001 | | U | 191 (72.1) | 159 (66.3) | | | M, L | 60 (22.6) | 34 (14.2) | | | UML | 14 (5.3) | 47 (19.6) | | | Histological type | | | <0.001 | | Differentiated | 151 (57.0) | 97 (40.4) | | | Undifferentiated | 114 (43.0) | 143 (59.6) | | | Depth of invasion | | | <0.001 | | pT1, T2 | 228 (86.0) | 78 (32.5) | | | pT3, T4 | 37 (14.0) | 162 (67.5) | | | Lymph node metastasis | | | <0.001 | | pN0, N1 | 220 (83.0) | 123 (51.3) | | | pN2, N3 | 45 (17.0) | (48.8) | |
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*U; upper third, M; middle third, L; lower third.
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